• Name: Scott, John
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 24  October  1784
• Death Date: 9  March  1821
• Occupation: journalist

In 1807, John Scott (1784-1821), journalist, was appointed editor of the radical paper The Statesman founded by his then friend Leigh Hunt. An attempt to start his own paper was unsuccessful and he later moved to Lincolnshire and became editor of Drakard's Stamford News, which he transformed into a powerful mouthpiece for reformist ideas. By 1813 he owned and edited the London edition of Drakard's paper, which he renamed The Champion in 1814. He published critical pieces by Hazlitt, with whom he had been good friends since 1805, and some occasional pieces by Charles Lamb. He was also friends with Wordsworth whom he met for the first time in 1815. After a period spent abroad, Scott returned to London in 1819. Having sold the Champion, he now edited the politically liberal London Magazine which also published work by Hazlitt and Lamb. The antagonism between the London Magazine and Blackwood's prompted the literary attacks by Scott and Lockhart (editor of Blackwood's) that eventually led to a duel between Scott and Lockhart's agent Jonathan Henry Christie. Scott was shot and died from his injuries shortly afterwards.
His only appearance in the diary is 16 February 1821 when Godwin records the contest: 'Duel, John Scott & Christie'.

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