J. M. Scott

Polar explorer and author. This description is derived from chapter 5 of "The Watkins Boys" by Simon Courtauld, published by Michael Russell of Norwich in 2010, and from British Polar Exploration and Research, by N.R.Poulsom and J.A.L.Myres, published by Savannah Publications in 2000. James Maurice Scott was the son of a lawyer who grew up on the Island of Mull, went to Fettes School and read natural sciences at Clare College Cambridge, where he also obtained a rugby blue and …