[1] He was born on 3 August 1874 in Spalding the son of Rev Douglas Lee Scott LLD, later headmaster of Mercers' School, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Rogers.
He served in the Second Boer War from 1902 in the South African Field Force, receiving the Queen's Medal with five clasps.
[2] He served as a pathologist for the RAMC in the First World War based at the Cambridge Hospital in Aldershot.
His proposers were Henry Richard Kenwood, Daniel Elie Anderson, David Ellis and John Miller.
Following her death, on 1 May 1934[5] he married Eileen Anne Prichard (20 June 1883 - 1971)[6] of Wilburton, Cambridgeshire.