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Edward Keith "E.K." Scott (born 14 June 1918 - died 3 June 1995) was an England rugby union international who played in the centre for Harlequins, Redruth, Oxford University, England and the Barbarians. He also played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and was 12th man for England in the first Victory Test Match. He was the third son of Dr. F.S. Scott, who also played rugby for England in 1907, having returned from practising medicine in Australia where we was born. He was also the grandson of Edward Scott, a physician and politician who had been Mayor of Perth.

E.K.Scott was educated at Clifton College, where he excelled at all sports, particularly rugby and cricket, at which he was as good an all-rounder as existed in schools cricket at the time. In his five years in the XI he took 244 wickets, a record to this day, as a leg-spinner. He was also an aggressive batsman and a fine fielder. He went on to study medicine at Lincoln College, Oxford where he gained wartime blues for rugby and cricket, and then went on to qualify as a doctor at St. Mary's Hospital. He first played for England in the Victory Internationals of 1945-46, a few months after appearing as 12th man for England versus Australia at Lord's. He gained 5 international rugby caps in all, captaining the side on three occasions, playing with other members of the very strong St. Mary's Hospital side, including T.A. Kemp. N.O. Bennet and N.M. Hall. He continued playing cricket after taking over his father's general practice near Truro, touring with the MCC to Canada in 1951, playing for an England XI, and representing Cornwall and the Minor Counties. He was President of the Cornish R.F.U. in its Centenary year in 1984.