title: Ian Dixon Scott
text: # Ian Dixon Scott
  
  Sir Ian Dixon Scott KCMG KCVO CIE (6 March 1909 – 3 March 2002) was a British civil servant and a career diplomat who served as Deputy Private Secretary to the last two Viceroys of India. He was later appointed Ambassador to Congo, Sudan and Norway in the 1960s.
  
  ## Writings
  
  * Notes on Chitral (1937)
  * Tumbled House: the Congo at independence (1969)
  * A British Tale of Indian and Foreign Service (1999)
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He married, in 1937, Drusilla Lindsay, daughter of Lord Lindsay, the former Master of Balliol. They had a son and four daughters.
  
  ## Death
  
  Sir Ian Dixon Scott, died at Aldeburgh on 3 March 2002.
  
  