Background
He was born at Dundee, and studied medicine at Edinburgh from 1777 to 1779.
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Helenus Scott
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University of Edinburgh.
Career
1760–1821) was a Scottish physician. He entered the medical service of the East India Company, and served chiefly in the Bombay presidency. Scott became a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks in London.
At the beginning of 1790 he responded to a request from Banks on the cotton industry with an extensive report.
Later that year he sent Banks samples of wootz steel. He played a part in the founding of the botanical gardens in Bombay, in 1791.
Scott worked also as an agent for the local manufacture of gunpowder in Bombay, and spirits, from 1796. On 24 July 1797 he was created Doctor of Medicine by the University of Aberdeen.
He carried out the first successful vaccination in Bombay, in 1802.
After thirty years in India Scott returned to England, and began practice at Bath, Somerset. On 22 December 1815 he was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1817 began to practise as a physician in Russell Square, London. Scott married Augusta Maria, daughter of Colonel Charles Frederick.
Their sons included Robert, Helenus, and Alexander Walker Scott.
One of the stained glass windows in the Garrison Church, Sydney, was installed in memory of Helenus and Augusta.
