John Scott of Gala

(1790-1840)

LBT ID: JoScott1840	B/BAP: 1790 DIED: 1840-08-09
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; Peter Beauclerk Dewar, Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain (2000)
Scottish laird and lifelong friend of Walter Scott; they traveled together to Waterloo in 1815.
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Scott of Gala: Sir Walter Scott to John Scott of Gala, 20 May 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)