James Robinson Scott FRSE FLS PRMS (died 1821) was an 18th/19th century Scottish naval surgeon and amateur botanist. He served as Senior President of the Royal Medical Society 1818/19.
He was born in Edinburgh around 1763.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and later lectured in botany there.[1] He became a full surgeon in the Royal Navy, serving throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
He reappears in Edinburgh in 1818 living at 18 St Patrick Square.[2]
In 1819 he joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh alongside his colleague Dr Walter Oudney and Henry Dewar, Robert Kaye Greville and George Dunbar.[3]
In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Prof George Dunbar, Robert Jameson and Patrick Neill.[4] He lived his final years at 24 Clerk Street[5] in Edinburgh's South Side. He died in London on 29/30 August 1821.[6]
His wife Margaret died in Hertford in 1857, aged 87.[7]