Keith Scott was born in Truro, Cornwall and attended Clifton College,[1] near to Clifton where his grandfather the politician Edward Scott had settled on returning to England from Australia to practise medicine.
Thus it was that Edward Keith Scott followed in this tradition and after attending Clifton went on to Lincoln College, Oxford, to read medicine and then continued his training at St Mary's Hospital, London.
A year later he made his captaincy debut when he led England in a Test against Australia at Twickenham, which the tourists won the 11 points.
He was in the Clifton College XI for 5 years from 1933 to 1937 and took 244 wickets, a record that still stands today.
He appeared a couple of times in first-class matches for Gloucestershire in 1937 but had only one scalp to show for it, the Worcestershire batsman Sidney Martin being out hit wicket.