Walter Jervoise Scott

Walter Jervoise Scott was born on 3 April 1835, the son of James Winter Scott and his wife Lucy (née Jervoise). Scott was raised and educated in the UK and arrived in Australia in 1863 following stints as private secretary to a governor of Mauritius.

The Valley of Lagoons Station was established in 1862 after the area was opened up by the government. A partnership formed between Walter Jervoise Scott, his brother Arthur, George Elphinstone Dalrymple and Robert Herbert (then Premier of Queensland) financed the acquisition of the leasehold.{{cite book |last1=McCarthy |first1=Patrick Hubert |title=The Wild Scotsman: A Biography of James McPherson, the Queensland Bushranger |date=1974 |publisher=Hawthorn |isbn=978-0-7256-0128-7 |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5McAAAAMAAJ&q=jervoise%20scott |language=en}} The partnership became Scott Bros, Dalrymple & Company with Dalrymple acting as manager. Walter Scott overlanded stock from the Darling Downs to the property shortly afterward.{{cite web|url=http://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/valley-of-lagoons-station|title=Archives – Valley of Lagoons Station|date=29 August 2011|publisher=Australian National University|access-date=10 October 2014|archive-date=18 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218142528/http://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/valley-of-lagoons-station|url-status=live}}

Scott died at Valley of Lagoons on 29 June 1890. A large granite monument was sent from Great Britain by his brothers intended for his grave at Valley of Lagoons. On arrival at Cardwell, it was found to be too large to transport up the rough track to Valley of Lagoons, so it was erected in Cardwell instead on land owned by the Scott brothers between Clitheroe Street and Dalrymple Street.{{cite book |last1=Pike |first1=Glenville |title=Queensland Frontier |date=1978 |publisher=Rigby |isbn=978-0-7270-0713-1 |page=141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8HiAAAAMAAJ&q=jervoise |access-date=28 April 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23121883 |title="CARAVAN TALES.". |newspaper=The Queenslander |date=24 April 1930 |accessdate=26 March 2014 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425091525/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23121883 |url-status=live }} In 1914 the family gifted the land with the headstone and five adjoining blocks to the Anglican Church on the condition that they maintained the headstone in perpetuity. In 1965 the church sold the land and in 1966 built a church at 145 Victoria Street ({{Coord|-18.2627|146.0240|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=John Oliver Feetham Pioneer Memorial Anglican Church}}) and, using a crane, relocated the headstone to the front of the new church.Information board, outside the Anglican Church, 145 Victoria Street, Cardwell

A selection of his papers are held at the National Library of New Zealand.{{cite web |title=Scott, Walter Jervoise, 1835-1890 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22375180 |website=Scott, Walter Jervoise, 1835-1890 {{!}} Items {{!}} National Library of New Zealand {{!}} National Library of New Zealand |publisher=The National Library of New Zealand |access-date=28 April 2021 |language=en |date=1 January 1835 |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428230739/https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22375180 |url-status=live }}

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• {{Citation | author1=Scott, Walter Jervoise | author2=Scott, Arthur Jervoise | author3=Dalgety & Company | title=Manuscripts of Colonel Jervoise Scott of Rotherfield, Alton, Hampshire, England | publication-date=1960 | publisher=Kodak, Rocordak Division | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34613940 }} — contains letters written by Walter Jervoise Scott about the Valley of Lagoons pastoral station

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