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Scott, Harriet (1830-1907)

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Morgan, Harriet
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-494491

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

SCOTT, ALEXANDER WALKER (1800-1883), entomologist and entrepreneur, was born on 10 November 1800 in Bombay, India, son of Dr Helenus Scott and his wife Augusta Maria, née Frederick. Educated at Bath Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge (B.A., 1822; M.A., 1825), he entered Lincoln's Inn but discarded a legal career for speculation as a merchant. On 17 January 1827 he arrived at Newcastle, New South Wales, in his ship Australia. This and voyages to the colony in 1829 and 1831 proved financially disastrous. In 1829 he took up a 2560-acre (1036 ha) grant on Ash Island in the Hunter River and in 1831 with his mother and sister he returned as a settler. He bought land between Newcastle and Maitland. From Newcastle House, built in 1837 on the harbour front at Newcastle, he supervised the establishment of an iron-foundry, forge and patent slip at Stockton and the construction of large tanks on Moscheto Island, where sea-water was used to supply salt for Sydney. He grew tobacco and flax on the Maitland farms and oranges on Ash Island. In 1842 Ludwig Leichhardt visited the island, found it 'a romantic place' and noted the artesian bore. In 1844 Scott presciently financed detailed plans for a railway between Newcastle and Maitland and was undeterred by Governor Gipps's comment that 'the colony was not sufficiently advanced to entertain such important works'; he advocated a tramway to Singleton and in 1853 became a shareholder in the Hunter River Railway Co., taken over by the government in 1855. Scott's original project became part of the Great Northern Railway.

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Australian Women's Register

Scott was educated by her father, A.W. Scott, and acquired a considerable knowledge of Australian plants, animals and insects. Her paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena (qv), as an honorary member.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

  1. 'Scott, Harriet (1830 - 1907)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    Nancy Gray
    [1976]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 6
    pp 93-94.

Australian Women's Register

  1. The Scott Sisters: Art Treasures of the 19th Century Revealed
    Ord, Marion
    [1987]
  2. Scott, Harriet ( - 1907), Biographical Entry
    [2002]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
  3. Where are the Women in Australian science?
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
  4. Scott, Alexander Walker
    Gray, Nancy
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
  5. Scott, Harriet (1831-1907)
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
  6. Edward Pearson Ramsay - Records
    [Artwork : 1850 - 1907]
    'Guide to the papers of the Scott Family in the Mitchell Library, Sydney' Part 1 [ML MSS 38/1]. Correspondence with E.P. Ramsay 1861-84 [ML MSS 563/1]. Information in the Forde letters. Ash Island drawings 1852-62 with 2 printed plates in the records of the Linnean Society of New South Wales [PIC ACC 2026].
    Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
    ML MSS 38
  7. Papers of Harriet and Helena Scott.
    [1850 - 1890]
    Scott Sister papers: 3 notebooks plus an extensive collection of original sketches and watercolours of Australian Lepidoptera [40 cm, Series 192]; original watercolour drawings [Series 193].
    Australian Museum
    Series 192 and 193
  8. Papers of the Scott Family
    [1880 - 1893]
    1880; Certificate of Marriage, 8 June 1880, between Bowyer E. Shaw and Mary Anne Scott 1889; 'The Heroine of the Hurricane', being Ms. poem with corrections, signed S.A. Scott (Sarah Anne known as Saranna), and dated June 1889 1893; Letter received by Mary Anne Shaw (nee Scott) from J. Shaw mainly concerning family matters Date unknown; 'The Laughing Jackass', being Ms. notes on the Kookaburra, possibly written by Helena or Harriet Scott, cousins of Mary Anne Shaw
    0.01 m, 1 folder
    Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
    MLMSS 5076

Resources By Harriet Scott (17)

  1. Historical drawings of moths and butterflies / Harriet and Helena Scott ; introduced and selected by Marion Ord
    Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
    [Book : 1988]
  2. Historical drawings of native flowers / Harriet and Helena Scott ; introduced and selected by Marion Ord
    Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
    [Book : 1988]
  3. Transcripts of letters from Harriett and Helena Scott (Hattie and Nellie) to E.P. Ramsay (later Director of the Australian Museum, Sydney). Originals sold to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, by J.S.P. Ramsay (son of E.P. Ramsay) in the 1960's
    Forde, Helena, 1832-1910
    [Book : 1960-1969]
  4. Papers of Harriet and Helena Scott
    Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
    [Unpublished : 1838-1863]
  5. The mammals of Australia / illustrated by Harriett Scott and Helena Forde for the Council of Education ; with a short account of all the species hitherto described by Gerard Krefft
    Krefft, Gerard, 1830-1881
    [Book : 1871-1979]
    Available online
  6. The snakes of Australia : an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species / by Gerard Krefft
    Krefft, Gerard, 1830-1881
    [Book : 1869-1984]
    Available online
  7. Australian lepidoptera and their transformations / drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott ; with descriptions, general and systematics, by A.W. Scott
    Scott, A. W. (Alexander Walker), 1800-1883
    [Book : 1864-1898]
  8. [Wombat berry, Botany Bay, N.S.W.] [Harriet Scott]
    Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
    [Art work : 1842]
    Available online
  9. [Purple coral-pea, Botany Bay, N.S. Wales] [Harriet Scott]
    Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
    [Art work : 1842]
    Available online
  10. [Hovea linearis, Botany Bay, N.S.W.] [Harriet Scott]
    Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
    [Art work : 1842]
    Available online

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