James C. Scott is a political scientist and anthropologist.
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James Robert Hope-Scott (July 15, 1812 - April 29, 1873) was an English barrister and Tractarian.
At this time he was making a very large income at the Parliamentary bar, He only commenced serious practice in this branch of his profession in 1843, but by the end of 1845 he stood at the head of it and in 1846 was made a Queen's Counsel.
In 1847 he married Miss Lockhart, granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and on her coming into possession of Abbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott.