Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet


Sir Francis Edward Scott, 3rd Baronet was an English landowner.
On birth he succeeded his maternal grandfather Sir Hugh Bateman to the Baronetcy of Bateman of Hartington, Derbyshire to become 2nd Baronet of Hartington.
He was the son of Sir Edward Scott, 2nd Baronet of Great Barr Hall, then Staffordshire who had married Catherine Juliana Bateman.. In 1851 he succeeded his father to also become 3rd Baronet Scott of Great Barr.
He was one of the original officers of the 1st Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps raised at Handsworth on 15 August 1859 during a French invasion scare.
He married Mildred Anne Cradock-Hartopp of Four Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield,, by whom he had the following children: