Sir Richard W. Scott (1825 – 1913)
- 1825 Born Prescott, Ontario
- 1848 Call to the Bar of Upper Canada
- 1852 Mayor of Bytown
- 1857 Elected Member of Parliament
- 1862 Introduced in Legislation of Upper Canada an Act to restore Roman Catholics rights in respect of
- separate schools in Upper Canada (Ontario) Separate School Act
- 1867 Appointed Queen’s Counsel
- 1871 Minister of Crown Lands
- 1873
- 1875
- 1877
- 1896
- 1905
- 1908
- 1909
- 1913 Died at Ottawa
The following is the editorial which was written in the Ottawa, Journal, a paper opposed in politics to the party to which he belonged:
Few public men Canada has known have passed through life more usefully, and none more blamelessly than the late Sir Richard Scott. Three-fourths of his eighty-eight years were spent in almost continuous public service, characterized always by high ideals, by persistent effort and untiring work…’ Throughout his long career Sir Richard Scott was a patriotic Canadian and Imperialist, who stood for honour, fairness and moderation in both public and private life. He has left a notable double legacy to his country – the memory in part of untiring public work of a high type, the memory in part of unstained and unassailed simpleminded integrity, public and private.