Walter Jervoise Scott

Scott was raised and educated in the UK and arrived in Australia in 1863 following stints as private secretary to a governor of Mauritius.

A partnership formed between Walter Jervoise Scott, his brother Arthur, George Elphinstone Dalrymple and Robert Herbert (then Premier of Queensland) financed the acquisition of the leasehold.

Walter Scott overlanded stock from the Darling Downs to the property shortly afterward.

[1] A large granite monument was sent from Great Britain by his brothers intended for his grave at Valley of Lagoons.

On arrival at Cardwell, it was found to be too large to transport up the rough track to Valley of Lagoons, so it was erected in Cardwell instead on land owned by the Scott brothers between Clitheroe Street and Dalrymple Street.