Sir John Hamilton Scott, KCVO (born 1936) is a retired Scottish farmer and public servant. Born in 1936, Scott farms on

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and the

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– two of the

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. In the early 1960s, he had been a shepherd in

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in mainland Scotland and since 1981 he has been chairman of Woolgrowers of Shetland Ltd."Scott, Sir John (Hamilton)"
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'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 11 June 2019. He has been described as a "leading figure in the wool industry" on the islands.Pete Bevington
"Arise, Sir John"
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'', 11 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2019. He has held a number of public offices and served on a range of local advisory boards, including a spell as president of the Shetland branch of the National Farmers' Union in 1976, and five years as Chairman of the Shetland Arts Trust. Between 1994 and 2011, he was Lord Lieutenant of Shetland and a trustee of the Shetland Charitable Trust, noted for his reformist work on that body; as Lord Lieutenant he welcomed

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on visits to the island in 2000 and 2007 and chaired the organising committee of the

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in 1999 and the

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in 2005. He also headed a trust to renovate Belmont House, which raised more than £1 million for the project. In 2011, Scott was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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,
Supplement to the London Gazette
', 11 June 2011 (issue 59808), p. 3 shortly before he retired as Lord Lieutenant (on his 75th birthday).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, John Living people 1936 births 20th-century Scottish farmers People from Shetland Lord-lieutenants of Shetland Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order National Farmers' Union of England and Wales officials