Robert Scott (moderator)

Robert Forrester Victor Scott (1897–1975) was a Scottish minister and religious author who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1956.

He was born in 1897 the son of William Frank Scott of Logie Buchan in Aberdeenshire.

In 1927 he succeeded the late Rev Harcourt Morton Davidson as minister of St Andrews Parish Church in Dundee.

He was minister at the church on 10 May 1941 when it was severely damaged during the blitz in the Second World War.

[4] In March 1956, with Queen Elizabeth II, he conducted the ceremony to dedicate the war memorial chapel within the church to the London Scottish Regiment.