Lord John Douglas Montagu Scott (13 July 1809 – 3 January 1860) was a Scottish aristocrat and politician for Roxburghshire.

[3] Outside public life Lord John Scott was a keen fisherman, hunter, and yachtsman.

[3] In the 1830s, he together with his brother the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and his uncle, the 10th Earl of Home[5][6] were among the first to import Newfoundland dogs for use as gundogs.

[citation needed] At Christmas, it has been an annual tradition for a group of pranksters to secretly dress up the statue in the garb of a cartoon or TV character overnight.

the statue was dressed up as an Olympian for the final leg of the Olympic torch relay sporting a headband and runners jersey.