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Patrick Scott was a minor nineteenth-century British author, who briefly lived in Australia during the 1840s. He was the youngest son of Helenus Scott (1758-1821), a physician and East India Company surgeon, and his wife Augusta Maria, nee Frederick (1775-1840). He was born at Macau in ca. 1808, and was educated at Charterhouse School, London, and then at the East India College, Haileybury, where he graduated with medals in Classics, Law and Sanskrit in 1826. He subsequently went to India, where he was employed in the East India Company Civil Service. He came to New South Wales in ca. 1844, to join his brothers, who had taken up pastoral holdings in the Hunter Valley during the 1830s. However, he appears to have remained in the colony for only a brief period, and by the early 1850s had returned to England.

One of Scott's brothers was the New South Wales member of parliament, Alexander Walker Scott (1800-1883). Scott was also the uncle of the nineteenth century Sydney bibliophile, David Scott Mitchell (q.v.), and the uncle of feminist Rose Scott (q.v.).