Background
He was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland in 1851.
He was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland in 1851.
He went to secondary school at Edinburgh Institution and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1874 with Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (Bachelor of Medicine and Master in Surgery). He then went on to take the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons postgraduate diploma in 1876. and graduated as Doctor of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine)at Edinburgh in 1877. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1879.
Scott practiced in Scotland for a time before he was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Otago.