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of the Department of Physiology at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

Henry Harold Scott was a pathologist, bacteriologist and medical author. He was President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1943-1945.

He was educated at the Mercers' School. He then trained at St Thomas' Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

He served in the Second Boer War from 1902 in the South African Field Force, receiving the Queen's Medal with five clasps. Returning to England, he served as a GP in Ludlow. In 1920 he received a government appointment of state pathologist to Jamaica and lived there for four years.

He served as a pathologist for the RAMC in the First World War, based at the Cambridge Hospital in Aldershot.

In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In 1922 he took another government appointment as pathologist and bacteriologist in Hong Kong. However, he grew ill there and had to return home. He then found an appointment as pathologist at the Zoological Society of London. In 1928 he became Medical Secretary to the Colonial Medical Research Council in London. In 1930 he became Assistant Director of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 1935 he was created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and in 1941 was created a Knight of the Order.

He retired in 1942, and died in Braintree on 6 August 1956.

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Pathologist at ZSL London Zoo