Sir Francis Edward Scott, 3rd Baronet (25 February 1824 – 21 November 1863) was an English landowner. On birth he succeeded his maternal grandfather Sir Hugh Bateman to the Baronetcy (but not the estates) of Bateman of Hartington, Derbyshire to become 2nd Baronet of Hartington. He was the son of Sir Edward Scott, 2nd Baronet of

Great Barr Hall Great Barr Hall is an 18th-century mansion situated at Pheasey, Walsall, on the border with Great Barr, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It has associations with the Lunar Society and is a Grade II listed building. It is, however, in a very p ...

, then

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who had married Catherine Juliana Bateman. In 1851 he succeeded his father to also become 3rd Baronet Scott of Great Barr. He was commissioned as

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of the

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Troop of the

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on 7 August 1847 and remained with the regiment until about 1854. He was one of the original officers of the 1st Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps raised at Handsworth on 15 August 1859 during a French invasion scare. He married Mildred Anne Cradock-Hartopp of Four Oaks Hall,

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, (See

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), by whom he had the following children:Burke's 1953. * Sir Edward William Dolman Scott, 4th and 3rd Baronet, born 23 December 1854, died unmarried 1 April 1867. * Sir Arthur Douglas Bateman Scott, 5th and 4th Baronet, born 3 September 1860, Captain,

, died unmarried 18 March 1884, when he was succeeded by his uncle Sir Edmund Dolman Scott.

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References

* ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume II'' John Burke (1832) p. 409. ( Google Books) * ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953.
Capt P.C.G. Webster, ''The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry'', Lichfield: Lomax, 1870.
* Ray Westlake, ''Tracing the Rifle Volunteers'', Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Sir Francis, 3rd Baronet 1824 births 1863 deaths 19th-century English landowners Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Great Barr Staffordshire Yeomanry officers 19th-century British businesspeople Scott baronets