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'''John Corse Scott''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (born '''Corse'''; 12 July 1756 – 12 September 1840) was a Scottish surgeon in the [[Indian Medical Service]], a naturalist, and landowner in [[Lanarkshire]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
[[File:46 to 48 Moray Place, Edinburgh.JPG|thumb|300px|48 Moray Place]]<br />
John Corse of Bughtrig was born in 1756, the son of Richard Corse and Marion Stark.<ref>''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950''</ref> The Corses of Bughtrig were a [[Cadet (genealogy)|cadet]] of the family of Carmyle, Lanarkshire.<ref name=Burke>{{cite book|title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|author=Burke, Sir Bernard|year=1898|volume=2|page=1324|publisher=Harrison & sons |edition=9th|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897986;view=1up;seq=198}}</ref> On 1 September 1779, Corse joined the British Navy as a Hospital Mate ([[loblolly boy]]) assigned to the [[South Fencible Regiment]] and served in that capacity until the regiment was disbanded in April 1783. He was also an Ensign from 1781 to April 1783. He obtained his Certificate of Corporation of Surgeons in 1783. Corse was promoted to Assistant Surgeon on 22 May 1796 and to Surgeon on 22 May 1796. In 1799 his article ''Observations on the different Species of Asiatic Elephants, and their Mode of Dentition''<ref>{{cite journal|author=Corse, John|title=Observations on the different Species of Asiatic Elephants, and their Mode of Dentition|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|year=1799|volume=89|pages=205–236|jstor=107034|doi=10.1098/rstl.1799.0014|s2cid=186210377}}</ref> was published. According to one source, he retired from the Indian Medical Service on 30 July 1800. On 16 January 1800, he was elected F.R.S.<ref>{{cite book|author=Crawford, D. G.|year=1930|title=Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615–1930|volume=1|page=33|chapter=324. Corse, afterwards Corse Scott, John|isbn=9781781502297 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA33}}</ref><br />
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In 1800, he married Catherine Scott of Sinton (or Synton) and changed his name to John Corse Scott (or Corse-Scott) of Sinton. The marriage produced six sons and three daughters.<ref name=Burke/> In the 1820s he was a member of the board of directors of the Edinburgh Oil Gas-Light Company.<ref>{{cite book|title=King's Treatise on the Science and Practice of the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal Gas|year=1878|page=33|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTBRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38|last1=King |first1=William Boughton }}</ref><br />
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In the 1830s, he lived at 48 Moray Place, a huge Georgian townhouse on the [[Moray Estate]] in western [[Edinburgh]].<ref>Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1836</ref> He died in [[Ashkirk]], Roxburghshire.<br />
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