Walter Scott's ancestor, son of Walter Scott (“Auld Wat”); he is the subject of Sir Walter Scott's comic ballad “The Reiver's Wedding.”.

REFERENCES TO William Scott, fourth laird of Harden [Auld Wat]:

Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [29 June 1802] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)