Scott, David ♂

Education

Student United College 1758-1759 s. (Secondar).

Birth/childhood

Baptised 27.2.1746 2nd son of Robert Scott of Dunninald, M.P. and Anne Middleton. [Politician]

Career

Free merchant Bombay [now Mumbai, India] 1763-1786. returned with a large fortune. Director East India Company [Honourable East India Company] 1788 - 1802 (resigned). [Soldier]

Succeeded to Dunninald. Disponed Tweedsmuir patronage to St Mary’s College, 1803. [Landowner]

M.P. for Angus 1790-1796. Dundee, Perth & Forfar burghs 1791 - 4.10.1805 (died). [Politician]

Death

[Died 4.10.1805.]

Sources

• Burke, Peerage
• C. H. Philips, The East India Company, 1784 - 1834 p70 etc.
• Monumental inscription, Craig