Major General James Scott-Elliot, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar (6 November 1902 – 12 September 1996) was a senior British Army officer.
[1] He transferred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1935 and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1937 to 1938.
[3] His brigade was the first unit to cross the River Po on the route north through Italy.
[6] Scott-Elliot served as colonel of the King's Own Scottish Borderers from 1954 to 1961,[7][8][9] and as Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries from 1962 to 1967.
[3] In 1932 Scott-Elliot married Cecil Margaret Du Buisson; they had one son and two daughters.