George Henry Firth Scott, ( – 3 January 1935) was a Scottish-born Australian journalist and writer, generally known as G. Firth Scott. He was the son of George Firth Scott, Land Commissioner and Emma Elizabeth (née Barnes). He was born about 1862 at Golspie, County Sutherland,

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.Details on Queensland Marriage certificate 1889/B13568. He came to Australia and worked as a journalist for newspapers, including ''The Hobart Mercury''''

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'' 30 August 1899. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12752378 and the Sydney ''Daily Telegraph'' ''The Brisbane Courier'' 24 August 1901. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19089140 and also contributed stories to magazines including ''

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'' 8 May 1897. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14111224 On 4 October 1889 he married Ailleen Murphy at St. Stephen's Cathedral,

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. ''The Brisbane Courier'' Monday 4 November 1889. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3503443 Ailleen was the eldest daughter of John and Hannah (née Smith) Murphy. John Murphy, who died in 1883, was police-magistrate at Roma, Queensland and had, on a number of occasions, been Mayor of

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."Mayors of Ipswich". http://blog.library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/lh/2010/07/12/mayors-of-ipswich/ accessed 8 October 2012 Ailleen Scott gave birth to two children in AustraliaQueensland Births Deaths Marriages Online ref 1890/B46065, New South Wales Births Deaths Marriages Online ref. 32635/1892. after which the Scotts went to Great Britain and settled there permanently,''

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'' 2 March 1900. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56550473''

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'' 21 September 1901 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21266495 where Ailleen gave birth to four more children. Following Aileen's death in 1919, in

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, England, George married Miss Gladys Tatham in London on 20 February 1920.''The British Journal of Nursing'', 13 March 1920. http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME064-1920/page160-volume64-13thmarch1920.pdf accessed 8 October 2012"Tatham Family History". http://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I1319&tree=Tatham accessed 8 October 2012 George Firth Scott died on 3 January 1935 at Surrey, England. He was survived by his second wife, Gladys.PROBATE NOTICE: SCOTT, George Henry Firth, of Gunyah Poultry Farm, Smallfield, Horley, Surrey died 3/1/1935. Probate London 22 February 1935 to Gladys Firth Scott widow. Effects £7.3.7.

Works

Scott is best known for his novel ''The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance'' (1898), however he wrote many other novels and non-fiction works including the fiction titles, *''The Track of Midnight'' (1897) *''At Friendly Point'' (1898) *''Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland Bush'' (1900) *''The Twillford Mystery'' (1903) *''Possessed'' (1911) *''The Rider of Waroona'' (1912). His non-fiction titles include: *''The Romance of Australian Exploring'' (1899) *''From Franklin to Nansen: Tales of Arctic Adventure'' (1899) *''Britain's Austral Empire: Portraits of Statesmen'' (1901) *''The Romance of Polar Exploration'' (1906) *''Daring Deeds of Polar Explorers'' (1921) *''The Reeling World'' (1931).''Australian Literature, extended to 1950'' by

E. Morris Miller Edmund Morris Miller, CBE (14 August 1881 – 21 October 1964) was an Australian author, professor, and vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania between 1933–1945. Born in Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal, Miller moved with his famil ...

, p. 422. ''The Last Lemurian'' has been described as a "lost race romance" and has been compared with other works by Australian novelists including Ernest Favenc's ''The Secret of the Australian Desert'' (1896) and John David Hennessey's ''An Australian Bush Track'' (1896). ''The Last Lemurian'' includes pygmies, a bunyip-monster, a phosphorescent Yellow Queen (who has lived for thousands of years) and reincarnation. In the novel, the remains of the fabled Lemuria were discovered somewhere in the Australian desert.

References

External links

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Read Chapter 1 of The Last Lemurian from the Lost Worlds Australia Anthology.
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