David Scot

(1770 c.-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Scot, David, 1770?-1834 NRA: DNB: Scot, David (c.1770–1834), orientalist and writer LBT ID: DaScot1834 VIAF ID: 90490640 LOC ID: nb2009015816	B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1834
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (January 1835) 110; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish clergyman educated at Edinburgh University; he was professor of Hebrew and Oriental Lanaguages at St. Andrews University and a friend of John Leyden.
REFERENCES TO David Scot: John Gibson Lockhart to Elizabeth Lockhart, 3 October 1812 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 2: 1808-13