F. R. Scott

His father was Frederick George Scott, "an Anglican priest, minor poet and staunch advocate of the civilizing tradition of imperial Britain, who instilled in his son a commitment to serve mankind, a love for the regenerative balance of the Laurentian landscape and a firm respect for the social order.

While at McGill, Scott became a member of the Montreal Group of modernist poets, a circle that also included Leon Edel, John Glassco, and A. J. M.

[1] In March 1942 Scott co-founded a literary magazine, Preview, with the Montreal poet Patrick Anderson.

Like the earlier Montreal Group publications, "Preview's orientation was cosmopolitan; its members looked largely towards the English poets of the 1930s for inspiration.

[1] In 1952, he served as a United Nations technical assistance resident representative in Burma to help build a socialist state in that country.

[1] During the 1950s, Scott was an active opponent of the Maurice Duplessis regime in Quebec and went to court to fight the Padlock Law.

Although he declined the appointment, he supported Trudeau's imposition of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis same year.

[5] The Royal Society of Canada elected Scott a fellow in 1947 and awarded him its Lorne Pierce Medal in 1962.