John Russell Scott (12 July 1879 – 5 April 1949) was a British publisher.
[2] Scott attended Rugby School and studied engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[3] At the request of his father, Scott took over the post of managing director of the Guardian in 1905.
After the death of his brother Edward Taylor Scott in 1932, he became the sole majority owner of the publishing company The Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd as chairman and Governing Director.
[1] Scott was the first and only chairman of this first Scott Trust, which was dissolved in 1948, after a tax law was changed so that this type of trust was also subject to inheritance tax, and a new statute was created.