SCOTT, GEORGE, army officer; date and place of birth unknown; d.
as the result of a duel fought, probably on 6 Nov. 1767, in
Dominica. George Scott’s early days are obscure. He was probably
not the George Scott commissioned in the army as early as 1721,
who was an officer in the Earl of Rothes’ Regiment of Foot (25th
Foot), being appointed captain in 1742. Beckles Willson, Wolfe’s
biographer, appears to have believed that George Scott the
subject of this article was a son of a Mrs Scott who was a
friend of General Wolfe’s mother: Wolfe in 1750 sought support
for obtaining preferment in the artillery for a son of Mrs
Scott, but without success. It seems unlikely, however, that the
son in whom Wolfe rather reluctantly interested himself was
George, who in 1750 was already serving as captain-lieutenant in
what was shortly to become the 40th Foot, then in Nova Scotia.
He had been a captain in the army, as distinct from the
regiment, since 1746. In June 1751 he became a captain in the
40th. Scott appears in the pa