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Prof James Scott
(Filed: 19/10/2006)
Professor James Scott who has died aged 82, was a pioneer in the field of reproductive immunology and carried out research into congenital heart block and obstetric complications; in 1991 he wrote a report for the Department of Health on clinical practice in ovarian cancer.
The elder son of the Glaswegian physician and surgeon Angus McAlpine Scott, James Steel Scott was born in Glasgow on April 18 1924 and educated at Glasgow Academy and at Glasgow University. Scott gained his first clinical experience at the Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin, beginning a life-long association with Ireland which included working as external examiner to the national University of Ireland. After doing his National Service in the RAMC, he spent much of his early career in Liverpool, latterly as Senior Lecturer in Professor Sir Thomas Norman Jeffcoate's department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where he carried out original research into placental abnormalities. It was in Liverpool, too, that he met his wife, Olive Sharpe, the paediatric cardiologist.
Scott was appointed to the Chair of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Leeds in 1961, at the remarkably young age of 37. Under his leadership the department acquired an international reputation and his eminence led to many international visiting professorships. Scott was a famously stern critic and reviewer of scientific papers but also a hard-working, skilled clinician and courageous surgeon; he served on many medical committees, though committee work was not his natural milieu.
advertisementOne colleague recalled that Scott would often remain silent, if not somnolent, during meetings until they neared their conclusion, when he would perk up and ask the pertinent question that would throw into doubt all that had previously been discussed and decided.
Having been chairman of the Faculty of Medicine at Leeds from 1969 to 1972, he became Dean in 1986, although he insisted on retaining his chair, such was his consuming interest in obstetrics and gynaecology. During his term of office as Dean, as well as greatly improving co-operation between the city's somewhat disjointed LGI and St James's medical schools, Scott introduced the annual Graduation Dinner.
Opera was one of Scott's passions and he supported Glyndebourne, Opera North and the Wexford Festival (opera, Ireland and seafood were an irresistible combination, until he once succumbed to oyster poisoning minutes before an important lecture).
Despite a life-long loathing of golf, Scott d evoted much of his retirement to co-writing a biography of Dr Alister MacKenzie, a roguish medical graduate of the University of Leeds with antecedents in the North-West Highlands and an attraction to women with adrenogenital syndrome; he was, however, best known for designing the Augusta course on which the American Open is played.
James Steel Scott, who died on September 17, is survived by his wife and their two