The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69
Lord Charles Scott
Lord Charles Scott.
Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Douglas Scott, C.B., is a brother of the Duke of Buccleuch. He served as a midshipman on the St. Jean d'Acre in the Baltic and Black Seas in 1854-1856, and was rewarded with the Baltic, Crimea, and Turkish medals, and was afterwards in China and Hongkong, receiving the China medal and Fatsham clasp for his services in the Canton river and other places in 1857. In 1858 he was specially mentioned, and awarded the Indian medal for his services in Indian waters. He was appointed commander of the Rinaldo, and was second in command of the naval forces under Captain Heneage, which landed to