Career
He held the seat for over 20 years until the constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election. He was then elected unopposed as the Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament for the new Street Marylebone constituency. He retired from politics at the 1922 general election.
In April 1901 he was appointed an Assistant Private Secretary (unpaid) to Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary to the War Office.
Scott was a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards. He resigned from his commission, and was appointed a second-lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry (Queen"s Own) on 24 February 1897.
Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War, he volunteered for service with the Imperial Yeomanry, and was on 10 February 1900 appointed a lieutenant in the 11th Battalion.