{{Short description|British career Colonial Civil Servant}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2013}}
'''Alan James Scott''' (born 14 January 1934) was a career Colonial Civil Servant, whose last posting was as Governor of the Cayman Islands from 10 June 1987 to 14 September 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2013/06/19/next-governor-appointed-will-be-first-female |title=Next Governor appointed, will be first female |publisher=Cayman 27 |author=Watler, Kevin |date=June 19, 2013 |accessdate=December 10, 2013 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216173816/http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2013/06/19/next-governor-appointed-will-be-first-female |archivedate=December 16, 2013 }}</ref>
Previously he had been Secretary for Transport in Hong Kong (1980–85)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/07/world/hong-kong-to-put-electronic-toll-takers-in-streets.html |title=HONG KONG TO PUT ELECTRONIC TOLL TAKERS IN STREETS |work=New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=April 7, 1983 |accessdate=December 10, 2013}}</ref> and later the Deputy Chief Secretary (1985-87)<ref>{{cite journal| last=Cheung | first=Chor-yung | date=2009 | title=Public Service Neutrality in Hong Kong: Problems and Prospects | journal=Australian Journal of Public Administration | volume=68 | issue=1 | pages=21 | issn= 0313-6647 | doi=10.1111/j.1467-8500.2009.00619.x }}</ref> and before Hong Kong, he had served in Fiji until the country's independence in 1970.
He is married to Joan Hall Scott, born Joan Laureen Hall.
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