John Scott was, grazier, company director and politician. He was the son of John Scott and his wife Marion Purves. John Scott junior's wife was Agnes Thomson who died in July 1892.

Business life

Scott was educated at St Andrew's University  and Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine. He arrived in New South Wales

New South Wales

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 in 1843. For a time he was a squatter in Goulburn, New South Wales. Between 1851 and 1852 he was in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. He went to Queensland in 1855. He stocked Palm-Tree Creek, Dawson which he sold in 1865 but acquired further stations. Scott was a director of City Mutual Life Assurance Society and vice president of The Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland. Scott was a trustee of Brisbane Grammar School

Brisbane Grammar School

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 from 1874 to 1888 and Honorary Treasurer from 1877 to 1886.

Political career

Scott was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

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• Clermont, 22 June to I October 1868
• Leichhardt, 13 August 1870 to 24 November 1873
• Springsure, 25 November 1873 to 14 November 1878
• Leichhardt, 5 December 1878 to 5 May 1888.

He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council

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 from 23 August 1888 to 26 June 1890.

Scott was Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Assembly, 15 November 1871 to 1 September 1873 and 21 June 1879 to 26 July 1883.

Scott died in 1898 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery

Toowong Cemetery

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Family

John Scott and his wife Agnes had five children:

• Ada Frances (1855-1905), the wife of George Neville Griffiths M.L.A. Griffiths and Ada Frances were the grandparents of William Charles Wentworth M.P. (1907-2003)
• Arthur (1857-1874)
• Dr. Eric Scott (b. 1859)
• Florence (b. 1860)
• Constance