However a serious motorcycle accident on Lothian Road, hospitalised him and left him with a permanent leg injury[3] (also rendering him unfit for service in the First World War).
His proposers were Edwin Bramwell, Arthur Logan Turner, Anderson Gray McKendrick, and William Thomas Ritchie.
Portraits of Dott are held at the National Galleries of Scotland (a photograph by Grace Alison) and at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (a painting by Sir William Hutchison).
The Dott family - formerly D'Ott or possibly De Ott - were of Huguenot stock and had arrived in Scotland from the Low Countries in the late 17th century, when they settled at Cupar in Fife.
Peter's father, Aitken Dott, had founded a picture-framing business in Edinburgh's South St David Street in 1842.
Having had a short-lived marriage in the 1880s, she had been a widow for several years when she married Peter Dott on 2 April 1894, at which time they settled in Colinton on the outskirts of Edinburgh.