Lyall Stuart Scott

Lyall Stuart Scott (1920 to 1977) was a Scottish consultant surgeon who specialised in urology. Educated at the High School of Glasgow and Strathallan School in Perthshire, he graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1943 and then served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Italy and Austria, where he was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services for the Eighth Army. Back in Glasgow he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948 and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1949, took the degree of Master of Surgery in 1955 and Doctor of Medicine in 1960, and was made an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1961. Appointed consultant urologist at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, in 1962, he became senior consultant and head of department there in 1967. He published numerous research papers and was a former president of the Scottish Urological Society.