The family returned to Britain to live in Holland Park, but Scott was sent to Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army in Bath, Somerset.
In 1914 she went to the women-only Royal Holloway College in London where she won the Driver Prize for Botany in 1917 and graduated with Class III honours in 1917.
After Priestley died in 1944, she managed the botany department at Leeds for eighteen months until Irene Manton was appointed on 15 January 1946.
[2] She retired in 1958 and moved to Yeovil, Somerset but continued to write and be involved in science.
[1] Scott was the co-author, with J. H. Priestley and Edith Harrison, of An introduction to botany with special reference to the structure of the flowering plant.