Info 3a, Daniel Scott

Info 3a. Daniel Scott


 Dr. Daniel  Scott     
 b.dec1793   Borlick , Little Dunkeld   registered as Donald
 d.05nov1873      
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Never married

The eldest son Daniel Scott , was serving in the Army as early as;-

8th Feb 1813, 
Appointed Hospital Mate. 

1813-1814 
served in the Peninsular War from March 1813 until the end of the war in 1814. 

(This conflict of the Napoleonic Wars saw the allied powers of the Spanish, Portuguese and British
 defeat Napoleon’s French forces to take control of the Iberian Peninsular.)

9th bMarch 1815 Hospital Assistant

18th March 1824 
Daniel was appointed Assistant Surgeon 36th (Hereford) Regiment of Foot ,

The Time, London. 29th March 1824
The Army; Hospital Assistant Danile Scott to be Assistant Surgeon Vice Lindsay, Promoted, dated 18th March 1824.

17 oct 1834
Promoted to Surgeon  after 22 years service in 1834,

London Gazette. 17th October 1834
Hospital Staff; Assistant Surgeon, Danile Scott, from the 36th Foot, to be Seorgeon to the Forces, Vice; Alexander Melville, who retires upon half Pay

Albion and Star. 7th November 1834
Hospital Staff; Charles Scott M.D. to be assistant Surgeon, Vice Daniel Scott, promoted on the Staff

His Younger brother Charles entered the Army Medical Department as an Assistant Surgeon in November 1834, filling the vacancy left by his brother Daniel's promotion as Surgeon.

Daniel appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in 1850

Daniel Scott had spent time in the Caribbean on St Kitt’s, and also at Gibraltar, and had achieved the commission of Inspector General of Hospitals in Gibraltar by 1854.
In 1855 he arrived to Malta as Principal Medical Officer of the Malta Garrison. Records indicate that he “attributed the 1850 outbreak of cholera in the Valletta (Malta) hospital to the effluvia emanating from the porous rock on which the hospital was built which had, over time, become saturated with offensive leakage from the sewers. Scott recommended the building of a new hospital.” As a result, a nearby palace was purchased, and along with an adjoining hostel was converted into a military hospital.
Daniel Scott left Malta in 1857, retired in 1859 and eventually returned to Scotland, living in Edinburgh.

On 5th November, the elder of the retired uncles, Dr Daniel Scott died in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is noted in newspaper announcements of Daniel’s death that he had been appointed Honorary Physician to Her Majesty the Queen in 1870. As with a similar honour bestowed on his brother Charles, this was a title honouring loyal and distinguished service, and did not carry with it any medical duties.61 The scholar of the family, Edward R M Scott, had been a teacher at Amherst and Wareek, and in 1876 was appointed as secretary and collector to the Maryborough Hospital.62


1861 census
source            CSSCT1861-126  ed43 
place             Edinburgh
dwelling          Schedule 75, 19 Albany Steet 

Daniel Scott   Lodger  53  Member of the College of Surgeons Edinburgh,      
                           Inspector General of Army Hospitals,