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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = George Francis Scott
| name = Elliot
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA Cantab, BSc. Edin,. FLS, FRGS
| image = File:Elliot,_George_Francis_Scott.jpg
| birth_date = 1862
| death_date = 1934
| address = Newton, Dumfries<br />
| occupation = botanist<br />academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1907.01.17
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1907 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Linnean Society of London<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Society of Edinburgh
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by William Wright; seconded by William Gowland 1906.12.10
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Prof George Francis Scott-Elliot FRGS FLS FRSE (1862–1934) was a botanist and academic author of Scots descent. He was a personal friend of Patrick Geddes.<br />He was born in Calcutta in India of Frano-Scots parentage. His father, James Scott Elliot (d.1880) was a merchant in Calcutta, coming from the Scottish Borders.[1]<br />He went to Cambridge University in 1879 and graduated BA (Maths tripos). He then attended Edinburgh University gaining a BSc in Botany. He had a natural love of travel. His first major trip was 1888-89 when he explored South Africa Mauritius and Madagascar. In June 1890 he gave a lecture to the Linnean Society on the flora of Madagascar. He then did further studies in Libya and Egypt before being commissioned by the Franco-Britiah Delineation Committee to defone the boundaries of Sierra Leonne.[2]<br />From 1896 to 1903 he lectured in Botany at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1903 he underook a tour of South America.<br />From 1902 to 1909 he was President of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society.[3] At this period he lived in Harrdale in Kirkcudbrightshire.<br />He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913. His proposers were Robert Kidston, John Horne, John Aitken and James Geikie. He resigned in 1927.[4]<br />Although "over-age" he volunteered almost immediately at the onset of the First World War and joined the King's Own Scottish Borderers and saw active duty under fire in Egypt as a Captain and was awarded the Order of the Nile. In 1917, whilst returning home on leave, his ship was torpedoed off the coast of Italy. Ensuing ill-health from this near-drowning left him unable to rejoin his regiment on active duty, and instead he became a commanding officer in the Home Defence Corps.<br />In late life he retired with his wife to Wadhurst in Sussex to be near his brother, Lt Col William Scott Elliot DSO (1873-1943).<br />In his final years he returned to Dumfriesshire and died there in a nursing home on 20 June 1934.<br />He married Annie Johnston-Stewart in April 1896 near Whithorn. They lived originally at Wilton Mansions in Glasgow. They later moved to Kilmalcolm and finally to Kilbarchan.<br />His nephew was Major General James Scott Elliot, who later became commander of the King's Own Scottish Borderers.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Best route to Uganda (1895) <br />Flora of Dumfrieshire (1896) <br />A First Course in Practical Botany (1906) Chile: Its History and Development (1913) Fauna, Flora and Geology of the Clyde Area (1901) <br />Prehistoric Man and His Story (1915) <br />The Romance of Plant Life (1907)<br /><br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = George Francis Scott
| name = Elliot
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA Cantab, BSc. Edin,. FLS, FRGS
| image = File:Elliot,_George_Francis_Scott.jpg
| birth_date = 1862
| death_date = 1934
| address = Newton, Dumfries<br />
| occupation = botanist<br />academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1907.01.17
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1907 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Linnean Society of London<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Society of Edinburgh
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by William Wright; seconded by William Gowland 1906.12.10
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Prof George Francis Scott-Elliot FRGS FLS FRSE (1862–1934) was a botanist and academic author of Scots descent. He was a personal friend of Patrick Geddes.<br />He was born in Calcutta in India of Frano-Scots parentage. His father, James Scott Elliot (d.1880) was a merchant in Calcutta, coming from the Scottish Borders.[1]<br />He went to Cambridge University in 1879 and graduated BA (Maths tripos). He then attended Edinburgh University gaining a BSc in Botany. He had a natural love of travel. His first major trip was 1888-89 when he explored South Africa Mauritius and Madagascar. In June 1890 he gave a lecture to the Linnean Society on the flora of Madagascar. He then did further studies in Libya and Egypt before being commissioned by the Franco-Britiah Delineation Committee to defone the boundaries of Sierra Leonne.[2]<br />From 1896 to 1903 he lectured in Botany at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1903 he underook a tour of South America.<br />From 1902 to 1909 he was President of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society.[3] At this period he lived in Harrdale in Kirkcudbrightshire.<br />He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913. His proposers were Robert Kidston, John Horne, John Aitken and James Geikie. He resigned in 1927.[4]<br />Although "over-age" he volunteered almost immediately at the onset of the First World War and joined the King's Own Scottish Borderers and saw active duty under fire in Egypt as a Captain and was awarded the Order of the Nile. In 1917, whilst returning home on leave, his ship was torpedoed off the coast of Italy. Ensuing ill-health from this near-drowning left him unable to rejoin his regiment on active duty, and instead he became a commanding officer in the Home Defence Corps.<br />In late life he retired with his wife to Wadhurst in Sussex to be near his brother, Lt Col William Scott Elliot DSO (1873-1943).<br />In his final years he returned to Dumfriesshire and died there in a nursing home on 20 June 1934.<br />He married Annie Johnston-Stewart in April 1896 near Whithorn. They lived originally at Wilton Mansions in Glasgow. They later moved to Kilmalcolm and finally to Kilbarchan.<br />His nephew was Major General James Scott Elliot, who later became commander of the King's Own Scottish Borderers.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Best route to Uganda (1895) <br />Flora of Dumfrieshire (1896) <br />A First Course in Practical Botany (1906) Chile: Its History and Development (1913) Fauna, Flora and Geology of the Clyde Area (1901) <br />Prehistoric Man and His Story (1915) <br />The Romance of Plant Life (1907)<br /><br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===