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 Sylhet : he settled the Provinces of Upper and Lower Assam when conquered in the first Burmese war : laboured to advance the country : encouraged the Missionaries : carried out a survey: subdued the Garos, opening a school for them : made a treaty at Nunklow with the Khasias, who afterwards, April 4-5, 1831, murdered two British officers, Bedingfield and Burlton, Scott fortunately escaping : he had to suppress disturbances, in pacifying the Khasias : he was remarkable for the diversity of his knowledge and pursuits : a keen sportsman : recommended the Sanitarium established at Cherrapunji, where he died, Aug, 20, 1831, and the Supreme Government erected a monument to him : described as "indeed a second Cleveland" (q.v.).

SCOTT, SIR JAMES GEORGE (1851–)

Born Dec. 25, 1851 : son of Rev.George Scott : educated abroad and at King's College School, London, and Edinburgh University and Lincoln College, Oxford : War Correspondent in Perak, 1875–6 : Burma, 1879 : Tonking, 1883–5 : joined the Burma Commission, 1886 : employed on Anglo-Siamese Boundary Commission, 1889–90 : Superintendent N. Shan States, 1891 : British Commissioner, Mekong Commission, 1894–6, and Burma-China Boundary Com-mission, 1898–1900 : C.I.E., 1892 : Superintendent, S. Shan States, 1902 : author of The Burman, His Life and Notions : France and Tonking : Burma as it was, as it is, and as it will be : The Upper Burma Gazetteer, 5 vols. : K.C.I.E.

SCOTT, JOHN (1747–1819)

Son of Jonathan Scott : born 1747 : entered the E.L Co.'s military service in Bombay, about 1766, went to Bengal, 1768 : and became later a Major : was A.D.C. to Warren Hastings : commanded a native regt. at Chunar, 1780 : was employed by Warren Hastings as his agent in England, 1781 : Scott advocated his cause with more energy than discretion : published works on behalf of Hastings, 1782–4 : M.P. for West Looe, 1784–90 : for Stockbridge, 1790 : his officious and over-zealous assertion of Hastings' praises and ill-treatment was practically the cause of the impeachment : he inherited the estates and took the additional name of a cousin. Waring: died May 5, 1819 : wrote Observations, on other Indian subjects.

SCOTT, SIR JOHN (1797–1873)

General : born 1797, son of J.F. Scott : educated at Chiswick and Westminster : entered the Army, 1815 : was at Paris, and the siege of Antwerp, 1832 : in 1838–9 commanded the Cavalry of the Division of the Army of the Indus : at Ghazni : in 1839 commanded a detached column in Upper Sind : was at Maharajpur, 1843, commanding a Brigade of Cavalry, and at Sobraon, 1846 : C.B., and A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : K.C.B., 1865 : Maj-General, 1854 : General, 1868 : died, while riding in Rotten Row, Jan. 18, 1873.

SCOTT, SIR JOHN (1841–1904)

Born 1841 : educated at Bruce Castle, near Birmingham, and Tottenham, and Pembroke College, Oxford : played in the Cricket Eleven for Oxford against Cambridge in 1863 : called to the bar from the Inner Temple in 1865 : from 1872 he practised and held judicial appointments at Alexandria, as British Representative in the Court of Appeal, and as Vice-President: Judge of the High Court, Bombay, 1882 to 1892 : Judicial Adviser to the Khedive, 1892–8 : Deputy Judge-Advocate-General to Her Majesty's Forces, 1898 : K.C.M.G. in Feb. 1894, and D.C.L. of Oxford : died at Norwood, March 1, 1894 : known in Egypt as "Scott the Just."

SCOTT, JONATHAN (1764–1829)

Born 1754 : son of Jonathan Scott : brother of John Scott (q.v.) : educated at Shrewsbury : to India, in the 29th N.I., in 1772 : Captain, 1778 : Persian Secretary to Warren Hastings : helped to found the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1784 : returned to England, 1785 : published translations of various Oriental works, including A Translation of Ferishtd's History of the Dekkan, with a History of Bengal from the Accession of Aliverdi Khan to the year 1780, and an edition, with introduction and additions, of the Arabian Nights, from the French of M. Galland, 1811 : Professor of Oriental Languages at the R.M. College, 1802–5 : and the first to hold a similar appointment at Haileybury : D.C.L., 1805 : died Feb. II, 1829,