EAHB 1906 - S. Elliott

North - Scientist, member of a Royal Society expedition to study the natural history of the Ruwenzori, arr. Zanzibar from London 25-10-1893; arr. Mombasa from Zanzibar 1-11-1893; Dep. Mombasa up-country 9-11-1893; dep. Kikuyu 14-12-1893; arr. Lake Victoria 11-1-1894; At Kampala 6-2-1894; Dep. Zanzibar for London via Cape Town 19-1-1895

Watt - 1893 - 'We found at Machakos fort Mr Scott Elliott, an eminent scientist, ... awaiting the arrival of our caravan, so that they might join forces with us on the most hazardous part of their journey.'

Web - Son of a Scottish merchant, James Scott-Elliot (-1880) of Calcutta, his surname is variously misinterpreted and commonly cited as 'Scott Elliott'. He worked as a botanist mainly in Africa and was employed on the French and English Delimination Commission of the Sierra Leone Boundary (1891-1892), also participating on the British East Africa Expedition or Ruwenzori Expedition (1893-1894). Scott-Elliot became a lecturer in Botany at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow (1896-1904) and was President of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. The genus Scottellia Oliv. in the Flacourtiaceae and many species including Millettia scott-elliotii Dunn, Ficus scott-elliottii Mildbr. & Burret and Bulbophyllum elliotii Rolfe were named after him.

Cambridge Univ Alumni pens. at TRINITY, Oct. 8, 1879. S. of James, of Blackwood, Dumfriess-shire. B. Jan. 5, 1862, at Dumfries. School, Brighton (private). Matric. Michs. 1879; B.A. 1883; M.A. 1886. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt., King's Own Scottish Borderers, T.F. Res.; Order of the Nile, 4th Class). (Univ. War List.)