Overview
Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet of Thirlestane (c.1670 – 8 October 1725) was a Scottish lawyer, known as a Neo-Latin poet.
Life
He was the eldest son of Francis Scott, 1st Baronet of Thirlestane, Selkirkshire, and Lady Henrietta, daughter of William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian, who married in 1673. Francis built a large tenement in Edinburgh in 1679 at Elphinstone Court near the Scottish mint.
William trained as a lawyer in Edinburgh and was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates on 25 February 1702.
On 20 May 1719 Scott executed a deed of entail of his lands of Thirlestane.
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