De Ruvigney Roll of Honour Vol 3 page 242
Newcastle Journal Monday 10/07/1916
Newcastle Journal Wednesday 12/09/1917
War Diary entry 1st July 1916
George Henry Hall Scott was born at Alnham House, Whittingham, Northumberland, on the 18th June 1882, the 2nd younger son of the late Sir Henry Hall Scott, [born 1834, Lochcarrow, Rosshire, Scotland], of Eilanreach, Inverness and Hipsburn, Northumberland, D.L., J.P., and his wife, Henrietta (Down Place, Guildford), [born 1851], daughter of George Gaukroger, [born 28th May 1826], of Southfield, Haddington, J.P. They had eight children. [Henrietta's mother was called Margaret Gibson, born 5th September 1824, daughter of James Gibson and Mary Ann Somerville*]. They were married on the 8th April 1849 at Haddiningtonshire. They were residing at Sunny Place, Veitch Place, East Lothian, Heddintonshire in 1861.
Henry Hall Scott and Henrietta were married on the 23rd January at Southfield, East Lothian and had four children. Their address in London was 17, Stratton Street, Piccadilly.
Henry Hall Scott was a farmer and coal owner and in 1881, he had 4400 acres and employed 50 Shepherds. He also was a boat owner. He was a member of the Council of Northumberland Agricultural Association, was a generous donor to Alnwick Infirmary as well as being on their Building Committee. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1872.
In 1885, he was sent to the USA for his health on doctor's orders.
During 'Black Week' [December 1899], in the South African Campaign, it was his initiative to form Yeomanry Regiments [see NUT195 page 1] for the South African War. In 1900, he offered £1000 and his son Adam! To back up in a practical way his suggestion to develop mobility with mounted infantry. Because of this idea he was given a Knighthood in 1902.
In 1901 the family were residing at Hipsburn, near Ledbury Town Fort Farm, with three servants.
Sir Henry Hall Scott died in Edinburgh, on the 9th November 1911, he was buried in Lesbury Churchyard on Monday, 13th November 1911. The coffin was conveyed from Hispburn to Lesbury on a draped lorry, and the burial service was conducted by the Reverend Canon Moore of Alnwick, and the Reverend G. Bray, of Lesbury.
Will of Sir Henry Hall Scott has been proved , the gross value of his estate being declared at £421,790. The testator makes the following charitable bequests:- To the poor of Lochearron £1,000, and to the poor of Glenelg and Arnisdale £1,000. Sir Henry also directed the payment of £50 to each of his shepherds and farm stewards in Northumberland who at his death has been eight years in his service: one year's wages to each of the maids who had been four years in his service: £50 each to his coachman and chauffeur, and various legacies to other employees. He also makes provision for the widows of old servants.
His will was questioned by his wife Dame Henrietta, the plaintiff, and the defendants were Adam Scott, George Henry Hall Scott, Janet May Hebeler and Margaret Christabel Scott. The point in question was the wording was 'The whole of my income' and whether the whole of the residue was divisible as income among the testator's children, or whether part of it ought to be capitalised. Mr Justice Joyce held that the children of the testator were entitled to receive the whole of the residue in equal shares.
Source : Yorkshire Post Friday, 17/05/1912.
George Henry Hall Scott was baptised on the 2nd September 1882. His elder brother was Adam Scott, born on the 13th July 1875, baptised on the 16th August 1875, [who married Mary the second daughter of the late Mayor-General G. C. Lambert and Mrs Lambert of Bolton Hall on the 10th August 1910, at the Chapel of St John the Evangelist, Bolton, Northumberland], who died on the 31st March 1925 by falling of his horse at the United Border Hunt meeting at Kelso. Janet Mary Scott was born on 16th October 1877, baptised 6th December 1877, and Margaret Christabel Scott born 1873, died on the 3rd March 1938 and buried on the 7th March 1938 at St Michael's All Angels Churchyard at Thursley, Waverley, Surrey. She was in 1891 a pupil at York, Bootham school for young ladies.
[Margaret married at St Mary Abbotts, Kensington on the 17th April 1912 to (Colonel then), Brigadier-General James Foster Riddell, only son of John Riddell [5th in descent from the Reverend Archibald Riddell, 3rd son of Sir Walter Riddell, 2nd Bart. of Riddell, co Roxburgh], by his first wife Jane, daughter of William Peppercorn, born 17th October 1861, educated at Wellington College, Crowthorne, co Berkshire, and R.M.C. Sandhurst, gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on the 1st July 1881, Captain 18th November 1899, Major on the 10th January 1900, then Lieutenant Colonel 10th February 1909, Brigadier commanding the Northumberland Infantry Brigade, 3rd July 1911, Brigadier General 5th August 1914, he served in the Hazara Campaign in 1888, was mentioned in Despatches, Medal with clasp, the South African War 1899-1900 and 1902. including the operations in the Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, and in the Orange Free State. January to May 1902, Queen's Medal, three clasp. Then the British Expeditionary Force from the 21st April 1915. During the South African War, he raised the 3rd Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. After this battalion was disbanded he was given command of the 2nd Battalion. In 1914 General Riddell was guarding the North East Coast. He was killed on the 26th April at the second battle of Ypres. In the middle of the afternoon at about 3pm he decided to go forward into the front line, at the front line with his stick in hand he was an obvious target for enemy snipers, he was killed by a bullet close to the gilt flap of his cap. He was killed instantaneously].
When Margaret Christabel Riddell died at Jamnagar House, Staines, Middlesex, she left effects of £44298 4s 6d. to Bernard Adam Hebele, Chartered Accountant and Roland Stewart Scott engineer. She was residing at Hyde House, Surrey.
George was educated at Aysgarth and Charterhouse, Verites Cricket Quarter, [Summer Term] 1896 to CQ 1900, and then became a Consulting Mining Engineer, and a Director of Bolsover and Blackwell Collieries, Derby, and Newbiggin Colliery, Northumberland.
George volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted a lieutenant in the The Royal West Surrey Regiment in September 1914, and then Captain in 1915.
7th (Service) Battalion were formed at Guildford in September 1914 as part of K2. September 1914, under command of 55th Brigade, 18th (Eastern) Division.
In 1912 George had been residing with his mother at Priorsfield Road, Down Place in Guildford.
He served with the Expeditionary Force in France from July 1915, and took over command of 'C' Company, on the 16th October 1915, which formerly was commanded by his brother-in-law Captain Roland Stuart Hebeler, who is remembered in Alnmouth on A10.09 and A10.12 at Newcastle in NUT195 page 21, in NUT236, page 317, [who married Janet Mary Scott, George's sister in June 1903 at Alnwick], who died of his wounds on the 16th of September 1915 at Corbie in France.
At 3.15pm enemy exploded a mine making a crater about 20 [feet] from parapet of TAMBOUR. On a report being received that a shelter had fallen in & buried some men in TAMBOUR, Capt R.S. Hebeler & Lieut L.W.M. Howard went to investigate. A bomb from a trench-mortar fell in the trench in which they were in, killing Lt. Howard & mortally wounding Capt Hebeler, a corporal & 1 man were wounded by the same bomb. The report as to the shelter was much exaggerated. Capt Hebeler died in Central Clearing Staion Corbie. Source : War Diary 7th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment.
His wife erected a Stained Glass Window to his memory War Memorial at Guildford. [Rowland Stuart Hebeler, mother was Edith Hebeler, father was Frederick Prickett Hebeler, baptised 7th May 1871 - St. Peter, Kent, England. Roland Stuart Hebeler Age, 44, birth 1871. Buried at Corbie Communal Cemetery; Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension Burial Country, France. Captain, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Age: 44. Killed in Action, he left 14,00 pounds to his widow Janet Mary (nee Scott). They had one child Hetty Margaret Hebeler.
She married, firstly, Major Hercules Dermot Wilfrid Pakenham, son of Colonel Hercules Arthur Pakenham and Lillian Blanche Georgiana Ashley, on 9 November 1927. She married, secondly, Lt.-Col. Richard Walter Byng Pembroke on 3 August 1950. She and Lt.-Col. Richard Walter Byng Pembroke were divorced in 1959. From the 9th November 1927, her married name became Pakenham. From the 3rd August 1950, her married name became Pembroke.
Children of Hetty Margaret Hebeler and Major Hercules Dermot Wilfrid Pakenham were Ann Penelope Pakenham, born 8th August 1928, Katherine Susan Pakenham, born 1st December 1930 and Hercules Michael Roland Pakenham born 4th February 1935].
George was also brother-in-law to Brigadier General J. F. Riddell.
George died of his wounds at the Battle of the Somme on the 1st July 1916, where the 7th West Surrey Regiment gained and held their objective, Montauban. George was at the Battalion report centre. He was with 'C' Company, which was then the Battalion Reserve and at about 8.30 am he advanced towards the front line to find out what was happening to his company as nothing had been heard from them at all, he was killed in front of the German Lines. His company had moved at 7.55am to BRESLAU trench, to join the remainder of the Battalion.
Buried at Carnoy. Captain Scott was a keen sportsman, and spent much of his time in salmon fishing and deer-stalking when at his Highland residence, Eilanreach, Inverness. He was unmarried.
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The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 12/09/1916 reports: 'Capt. G.H.H. Scott's Estate.
Captain George Henry Hall Scott, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, was the younger son of the late Sir Henry Scott, of Hipsburn, Lesbury, Northumberland, and of Lady Scott, of Down Place, Guildford, Surrey. Captain Scott was a consulting mining engineer, and was a director of Newbiggin Colliery, Northumberland, and of Bolsover, and Blackwell Collieries, Derbyshire. His death occurred in France on July 1, leaving estate valued at £73,625 3s 6d, with net personalty £68,615 2s 8d. Dame Henrietta Scott, of Down Place, his mother, and Mr. Thomas Emerson Forster, of 3, Eldon Square, Newcastle, mining engineer, are the executors. The will is dated January 30, 1913, wherein testator left £200 to Thomas Emerson Forster; furniture and personal effects to his mother and also to her all stocks, shares, and money, wishing that she should spend both the revenue and capital.'
George Henry Hall will left effects of £73625 3s 6d to Henrietta Scott Widow and Thomas Emerson Forster, mining engineer.
Dame Henrietta Scott of 3 Buckingham Gate, Westminster, left £96,317 in her will.
Thomas Emerson Forster, a mining engineer, seems to have been a close friend to the Scott family as he appears as a visitor in the Scott's residence during the Census of 1891 and 1901.
* A Grandson has provided the following information : James Gibson and Mary Ann Sommerville had another daughter, (sister to Margaret ) named Jane Cunningham Gibson who in 1859 married Robert Richardson in Haddington Scotland. They had 5 children, one of whom a son was named George Gaukroger Richardson. He married Jessie Cameron in Scotland in 1897. They had 3 children then came to Australia and settled in Melbourne in the state of Victoria. Jessie Richardson died in Melbourne on July 2nd, 1906. George Gaukroger Richardson remarried in Melbourne on April 23rd, 1913 to Alice May Krug (nee Antonio) who was my wife's Great Grandmother].
Source : Graham Lalor
Shields Daily News 05/08/1925 carries the following:
'Mr. Adam Scott, of Alnham, Whittingham, Northumberland, the well-known amateur jockey and racehorse owner, who was killed in the United Border Hunt meeting at Kelso by the falling of his horse, Command, on March 31st, has left estate of the value of £37,058.'
The report goes on to say that, among other bequests, Mr. Scott gave:
An Annuity of £30 to Margaret Mather. 'So long as the war shall continue, or if either of her sons be killed therein or die from the result thereof a sum of £50 and if both are killed or die as aforesaid a sum of £150; and
- Should Robert Dand be killed in the war, or die within one year of the termination or as the result of wounds, disease, or other causes, contracted or sustained while serving in the Army, a sum of £1,200 is to be paid to his mother or sisters, Dollie and Alina Dand'.
Adam was George's brother.
George Henry Hall Scott is remembered in Alnham on A9.01 and A9.03, in Lesbury on L9.01, L9.03 and L9.04, also remembered at Surrey on the Compton War Memorial, also on the Glenelg War Memorial
War Diary for the 1st July 1916
War Memorial at Compton Surrey
The CWGC entry for Captain Scott
