Whatever Happened to Byron’s Friend Alexander Scott?

In 2001–2002, The Byron Journal published my two-part article on Alexander Scott, an obscure but good friend of Lord Byron during his time living at Venice, complete with transcriptions of his heretofore unpublished correspondence to the poet. I have returned to this topic because, back in 2002, I simply had no knowledge of what happened to Scott post-1838. Since then, much new knowledge has emerged on Scott’s whereabouts, and we now know he ended up in modern-day Croatia. This article revisits Scott’s life from the 1830s until his death in 1860. It re-examines Scott’s time in Cheltenham and follows up on his return to the Adriatic, where he lived with his wife from Fiume (present-day Rijeka), while also speculating on which poems of Byron he might have read during his later years.