Mr. John Lee Scott, who represented South-East Ward in the City Council for about nine years, was born in Derby, England, in 1848. He was educated partly at the Wesleyan school, and partly at public schools, and was brought up to the engineering trade in his native place. In 1870 he came to Lyttelton by the ship “Ramsay,” and about twelve months later started business with his brother, under the style of Scott Bros., well known throughout Canterbury. Before lie was elected to the Christchurch City Council, Mr. Scott had been a member of the Sydenham Borough Council. For one year he was one of the Commissioners of the New Zealand Railways. As a Freemason he is attached to Lodge St. Augustine, N.Z.C. Mr. Scott was married, in 1870, on the day he left England for the colony, to a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas St. Clair, of London, and has one son and four daughters.