Charles Scott (ambassador)
Sir Charles Stewart Scott, was a British diplomat.
Scott was educated at Cheltenham College. He started his career as attaché at Paris ; transferred to Dresden and Copenhagen ; promoted to be a 3rd secretary at Copenhagen ; transferred to Madrid and Berne ; promoted to be a 2nd secretary at Mexico ; transferred to Lisbon, Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna, St Petersburg, and Darmstadt ; secretary of legation at Coburg ; from 1877 to 1883 repeatedly acting chargé d'affaires at Darmstadt and in 1881 at Stuttgart; promoted to be a secretary of embassy at Berlin ; promoted to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation; transferred to Copenhagen ; from 1898 to 1904 he was British ambassador to Imperial Russia.
In the 1899 Birthday Honours, Scott was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
