{{Short description|British pathologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Harold Scott | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|FRSE|FRCP|FZS}} | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Director, Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases | term_start = 1935 | term_end = 1942 | birth_name = Henry Harold Scott | birth_date = 3 August 1874 | birth_place = Spalding, Lincolnshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|08|06|1874|08|03|df=yes}} | death_place = Braintree, Essex, England | other_names = | occupation = Pathologist, bacteriologist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Sir Henry Harold Scott''' (3 August 1874 – 6 August 1956) was a 20th century British pathologist, bacteriologist and medical author. He was President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1943-1945.<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: H H Scott</ref>
==Life== He was born on 3 August 1874 in Spalding the son of Rev Douglas Lee Scott LLD, later headmaster of Mercers' School, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Rogers. He was educated at the Mercers' School. He then trained at St. Thomas' Hospital and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
He served in the Second Boer War from 1902 in the South African Field Force, receiving the Queen's Medal with five clasps. Returning to England he served as a GP in Ludlow. In 1910 he received a government appointment of state pathologist to Jamaica and lived there for 4 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3962|title = Inspiring Physicians | RCP Museum}}</ref>
He served as a pathologist for the RAMC in the First World War based at the Cambridge Hospital in Aldershot.
In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Henry Richard Kenwood, Daniel Elie Anderson, David Ellis and John Miller.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-05-31|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 1922 he took another government appointment as pathologist and bacteriologist in Hong Kong. However, he grew ill there and had to return home. He then found an appointment as pathologist at the Zoological Society of London. In 1928 he became Medical Secretary to the Colonial Medical Research Council in London. In 1930 he became Assistant Director of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3962|title = Inspiring Physicians | RCP Museum}}</ref>
In 1935 he was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) and in 1941 was created a Knight of the Order (KCMG).
He retired in 1942, and died in Braintree on 6 August 1956.
==Family==
He married twice: firstly in 1899 to Harriette Preston (24 January 1873 - 25 January 1933) of Attleborough, Norfolk, who is buried in Highgate Cemetery (east). Following her death, on 1 May 1934<ref>{{cite web |title=England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD4-96GK |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=19 March 2021}}</ref> he married Eileen Anne Prichard (20 June 1883 - 1971)<ref>{{cite web |title=England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCY-KR86 |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=19 March 2021}}</ref> of Wilburton, Cambridgeshire.
==Publications==
*''Some Notable Epidemics'' (1934) *''A History of Tropical Medicine'' (1939)
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