SCOTT, Hugh Robert. 1859 — 1929. Rev. Irish Presbyterian Missionary in India interested in Numismatics. M.A. Dr. Worked as missionary in Rajkot (1883-97) and Surat, Gujarat, until 1928. In 1926 corresponded with Gandhi, had then been 42 years in India. Married with Jeanie Hill Moore (d. 1946).

Publications: Gujarati Poetry: Its Value for Missionaries. Surat 1911.

– On the coins of Kṣatrapas, etc., JBRAS 20, 1902, 201-210; 22, 1908, 223-244; 23, 1914, 1-7; wrote on Gujarātī religious literature.

Sources: Scanty stray notes in Internet; L. Renold, “The Mahatma and the Missionary: Gandhi’s conflicting accounts of his first encounter with Christianity”, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2018 in digital.library.txst.edu

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