John Scott (medical school dean)

Prof John Halliday Scott FRSE (28 December 1851 – 25 February 1914) was a notable Scottish-born New Zealand university professor, artist and medical school dean.

He was born John Lidderdale Scott[1] at 13 Drummond Place[2] in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1851.

[1] His parents were Marion Shaw Lidderdale and Andrew Scott (WS).

[5] Scott practiced in Scotland for a time before he was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Otago 1877 to 1914.

[6] In 1882 he returned to Britain during the summer vacation (winter in UK) and in January 1883 married Helen Gardner Bealey (d.1899) in Cheltenham.