Lord John Douglas-Montagu-Scott (13 July 1809 – 3 January 1860) was a 19th-century landlord and MP for

Roxburghshire Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...

. He was the third son of the

4th Duke of Buccleuch Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch and 6th Duke of Queensberry, KT (24 May 1772 – 20 April 1819), styled Earl of Dalkeith until 1812, was a British landowner, amateur cricketer and Tory politician. Background and educ ...

and younger brother to the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. He inherited his residence at

Cawston in Warwickshire Cawston is a civil parish and suburban village close to the south west of Rugby, on the A4071 (which is in turn just one mile from the M45). The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,234. For hundreds of years the village was b ...

. In March 1836 he married

Alicia Spottiswoode Alicia Ann, Lady John Scott, (née Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) (24 June 1810 – 12 March 1900) was a Scottish songwriter and composer known chiefly for the tune, " Annie Laurie", to which the words of a 17th-century poet, William Douglas, wer ...

but died childless.Angus Calder, ‘

Alicia Ann Spottiswoode Alicia Ann, Lady John Scott, (née Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) (24 June 1810 – 12 March 1900) was a Scottish songwriter and composer known chiefly for the tune, "Annie Laurie", to which the words of a 17th-century poet, William Douglas, wer ...

(1810–1900)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn

Election results

Labrador Retrievers

Outside public life Lord John Scott was a keen fisherman, hunter, and yachtsman. In the 1830s, he together with his brother the

5th Duke of Buccleuch Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry, (born Walter Francis Montagu-Scott; 25 November 1806 – 16 April 1884), styled Lord Eskdail between 1808 and 1812 and Earl of Dalkeith between 1812 and 18 ...

and his uncle, the 10th Earl of HomeArticle written for The Field, 30 May 1896, 'Labrador Dogs', by John S Kerss were among the first to import

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for use as gundogs. These dogs are considered to be the

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of modern Labradors.

Statue

A statue of Scott, by Joseph Durham, stands in the centre of

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. At Christmas, it has been an annual tradition for a group of pranksters to secretly dress up the statue in the garb of a cartoon or TV character overnight. They have done this every Christmas for more than 30 years, More recently the statue was dressed up as an Olympian for the final leg of the Olympic torch relay sporting a headband and runners jersey. The statue was dressed up as Queen Elizabeth II during her diamond jubilee weekend celebrations.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Lord John 1809 births 1860 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Younger sons of dukes British landlords Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) UK MPs 1835–1837