Photograph, Rev. Hugh Roy Scott (1824-1878)

Half-plate ambrotype of Reverend Hugh Roy Scott, of the Scott families of Lynchburg and Amherst, Virginia.

Scott was a Protestant Episcopal missionary who served in Africa. The book Day Dawn in Africa, Or, Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa (1858) by his wife, Anna Miller Scott, describes his missionary work.

Inside the photograph case is written by Scott's wife:

                                                      Rev. Hugh Roy Scott
                                                   Take soon after his return
                                               from the Prot. Episcopal Mission
                                                          at Cape Palmas
                                                            West Africa
                                                                1856