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{{short description|Australian entomologist}}
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[[File:Alexander Walker Scott.jpg|thumb|{{center|Alexander Walker Scott}}]]
[[File:ScottLepidopteraAustraliaPlate4.jpg|thumb|200px|''Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott'' Plate 4 Watercolour original]]
'''Alexander Walker Scott''' (10 November 1800 – 1 November 1883) was an Australian [[entomologist]] mainly interested in [[butterflies]].

Scott was the son of Dr [[Helenus Scott|Helenus]] and Augusta Maria Scott. He was born in [[Bombay]], India and was educated at [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] Grammar School and [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]], receiving a BA in 1822 and an MA in 1825.<ref>{{acad|id=SCT818AW|name=Scott, Alexander Walker}}</ref><ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Nancy |last=Gray |title =Scott, Alexander Walker (1800–1883) |id2=scott-alexander-walker-4545 |access-date=2021-02-21}}</ref> Scott was elected to the new [[New South Wales Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]], representing [[Electoral district of Northumberland and Hunter|Northumberland and Hunter]] from 1856 to 1859, [[Electoral district of Northumberland|Northumberland]] 1858 to 1859 and [[Electoral district of Lower Hunter|Lower Hunter]] from 1860 to 1861. He supported the secret ballot and franchise extension. In 1861 he was nominated to the [[New South Wales Legislative Council|Legislative Council]] for life, but he took no part in it and resigned in 1866.<ref name=nsw>{{cite NSW Parliament |title =Mr Alexander Walker Scott (1800–1883) |id=281 |former=Yes |access-date=13 May 2019 }}</ref>
[[File:Ash Island 260338-max.jpg|thumb|Ash Island (artist A.W.Scott)]]
A failed entrepreneur, he later became a prominent figure in the commercial establishment of the [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]] region. He lived at [[Ash Island]] on the [[Hunter River (New South Wales)|Hunter River]] with his wife, formerly Harriet Calcott, a seamstress, and his two daughters [[Harriet Morgan|Harriet]] (1830–1907) and [[Helena Scott]] (1832–1910), both born in Sydney. At [[Ash Island (NSW)|Ash Island]] the sisters helped their father in his entomological work, collecting, preparing and drying specimens of plants and insects, and also accepted painting, drawing and [[lithography]] commissions from Australian naturalists including [[Gerard Krefft]], [[William Sharp Macleay|William Macleay]], [[Thomas Sutcliffe Mort]], [[Edward Pierson Ramsay]], [[William Woolls]] and [[Ferdinand von Mueller]].<ref name="ord">Ord, M. (1988). Historical drawings of Moths and Butterflies. Ash Island series volume 1 Harriet and Helena Scott. Sydney : Craftsman House 147 pp.</ref>

The Scott sisters became established with the publication of ''Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott'' which illustrated insects in the stages of [[Metamorphosis (biology)|metamorphosis]], in the environment in which they lived and fed. This work, published in 1864, was time-consuming and expensive and publication was delayed for 12 years. Although published (in London : John van Voorst) under Alexander Walker Scott it was an entirely collaborative work as its title states.<ref name="ord" />

Alexander Walker Scott was a trustee of the [[Australian Museum]] 1862–79 and a Fellow of The [[Entomological Society of New South Wales]], founded in 1862, as were both Helena and Harriet, though in their case it was honorary, a rare distinction.<ref name=ord/> He died in [[Paddington, New South Wales|Paddington]].

The Scott collection is conserved in the [[Australian Museum]] in Sydney.

In 1842 Scott invited French explorer and artist [[Ludwig Leichhardt|Fredrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichardt]] to stay at his house and arrived on 23 September and spent 3–4 days there.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=29 January 2013|title=Ludwig Leichhardt in Newcastle|url=https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2013/01/29/ludwig-leichhardt-in-newcastle/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 September 2020|website=Hunter Living Histories}}</ref>
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==Works==
*Description of an ovo-viviparous moth, belonging to the genus Tinea. ''Trans. Ent. Soc. London'' 1: 33–36 (1863).
*''Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott''. 1. London : John van Voorst [ii]+36 pp., pls 1–9.(1864).
*On the "Agrotis vastator", a species of moth, now infesting the seaboard of New South Wales. ''Trans. Ent. Soc. London'' 2: 40–48 (1869).
*''Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde''. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum 2 volumes.

==Notes==
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==Additional references==
*Anonym 2010: Encyclopedia of Australian science [http://www.eoas.info/about.html]
*Musgrave, A. 1932: Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775 – 1930. Sydney

==External links==
*[https://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn2331180 Plates from ''Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations''] also here [http://australianmuseum.net.au/Scott-Sisters-Butterfly-and-Moth-Drawings] and [http://australianmuseum.net.au/search/?keyword=harriet+scott&search=Search]
*{{Worldcat id|viaf-94481830}}
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