Abraham Scott (ca.1817 – November 1903) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia.
He emigrated to South Australia and set up in business as a wool merchant.
[1] He was a director of the National Bank of Australia and was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1857.
[2] He was reelected but resigned in 1867 to return to London, where he served as director of the Bank of Adelaide and agent for Goldsbrough Mort & Co.[3] He married Eliza Georgina Gooch (died 21 June 1910), a daughter of Charles Gooch; they had a son Thomas.
[3] Thomas married Elizabeth Isabella Silver of Bewdley, Worcestershire, in Hampstead on 4 February 1875; he married Mary Isabella Strangways Wigley, daughter of W. R. Wigley of Glenelg on 24 November 1887.