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Francis George Scott

Born: 25th January 1880, Hawick, Scotland

Died: 6th November 1958, Scotland

Nationality: Scottish

Francis George Scott was a Scottish composer often associated with the Scottish Renaissance.

Born at 6 Oliver Crescent, Hawick, Roxburghshire, he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts. Educated at Hawick, and at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, he studied composition under Jean Roger-Ducasse in Paris. From 1904 to 1913 he was a teacher at Langholm Academy, where he taught the young Christopher Murray Grieve. In 1925, he became lecturer in music at Jordanhill Training College for Teachers, Glasgow, a post he held for more than twenty-five years.

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