Robert Forrester Victor Scott (1897–1975) was a Scottish minister and religious author who served as

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in 1956. He is sometimes referred to as Robin Scott. BaronyHallPhoto

Life

He was born in 1897 the son of William Frank Scott of Logie Buchan in

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. Up until 1927 he was minister of

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. In 1927 he succeeded the late Rev Harcourt Morton Davidson as minister of St Andrews Parish Church in

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. In 1935 he was translated to the

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, replacing Rev John White, and himself being replaced in Dundee by Rev William Thomas Smellie. From 1939 he was minister of St Columba's Church (Church of Scotland) on Pont Street in

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. He was minister at the church on 10 May 1941 when it was severely damaged during the

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in the

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. He then strived for ten years to rebuild the church. In March 1956, with Queen

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, he conducted the ceremony to dedicate the war memorial chapel within the church to the London Scottish Regiment.

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1897 births 1975 deaths 20th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland 20th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub