Francis Scott (31 January 1806,

Mertoun Mertoun is a parish in the south-west of the historic county of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Together with the parish of Maxton, Roxburghshire it forms the Maxton and Mertoun Community Council area. It was included in t ...

, Berwickshire – 9 March 1884, Send Hurst near

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) was a British politician. Scott was the youngest son of

Hugh Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth Hugh may refer to: *Hugh (given name) Noblemen and clergy French * Hugh the Great (died 956), Duke of the Franks * Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France under his father, Robert II * Hugh, Duke of Alsace (died 895), modern-day ...

. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he read for the bar at the Middle Temple. In 1835 he married the daughter of the Rev. Charles Boultbee. He was MP for

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from 1841 to 1847, and for Berwickshire from 1847 to 1859. Between 1844 and 1851, Scott acted as the Parliamentary Agent for the New South Wales, representing the interests of the New South Wales Legislative Council in the House of Commons. From 1866 to 1876 he was master of the Surrey Union hounds, and actively promoted the Hunt Servants' Benefit Society.''British sports and sportsmen'', 15 vols.

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* 1806 births 1884 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of the Middle Temple Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs People from Berwickshire {{Conservative-UK-MP-1800s-stub