Scott received his first education in the Shrewsbury Royal Free Grammar School, but left in his thirteenth year to travel to India with his two elder brothers, John and Richard.
Hastings left India in February 1785, and as Scott resigned his commission in January of that year, it may be presumed that he returned to England about the same time.
Scott died on 11 February 1829 at his residence in St. John's Row, Shrewsbury, and was buried near his parents in the bishop's chancel of old St. Chad's Church there.
This was followed in 1794 by a Translation of Ferishita's History of the Dekkan from the first Mahummedan Conquests, with a continuation from other native writers, to the reduction of its last Monarchs by the Emperor Alumgeer Arungzebe.
These works were followed by the Bahar Danush, or Garden of Knowledge; an Oriental Romance translated from the Persic of Einaiut Oollah, 1799, 3 vols., and by Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters from the Arabic and Persian, 1809,.
Scott proposed to make a fresh translation from this manuscript, and printed a description of it, together with a table of contents, in William Ouseley's Oriental Collection.