Career
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he became an underwriter at Lloyd"s of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877-1878 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there. Scott married Ethel Frances Hall (1865-1943) on 19 June 1889.
The couple had no children.
Scott was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis, aged 41, at Melton, Suffolk.
