Our great grandfather James Scott, with his family.
He was born at Penston in Gladsmuir parish on 20 October 1853 and is wearing the uniform of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.
He served in the Egyptian campaign of 1883 and Nile Expedition (Gordon Relief Expedition) of 1884-1885 under General Garnet Wolseley (the inspiration for Gilbert & Sullivan’s Modern Major General) and Queen Victoria’s son, the Duke of Connaught.
On 13 September 1882 he fought in the Battle of Tel-El-Kebir.
The medals he is wearing are the British Egypt Campaign Medial and the Egyptian Khedive’s Bronze Star.
His maternal grandmother was Isabella Wilson (Mrs Hogg), a coal bearer, who testified to the 1842 Children’s Employment Commission.
The commissioner noted: “Mrs. Hogg is one of the most respectable coal-wives in Penston, her rooms are all well furnished and the house the cleanest I have seen in East Lothian.”
His cousin, the Rev. Dr. John Hogg was also born at Penston, but thanks to his father who was an elder at Tranent church, he studied divinity at Edinburgh University and became a missionary in Egypt.
John introduced the Maharaja Duleep Singh “The Black Prince of Perthshire” to his future wife Bamba Muller and performed their marriage ceremony in Cairo on 07 June 1864.
Right: The Khedive’s Star was a campaign medal established by Khedive Tewfik Pasha to reward those who had participated in the military campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan between 1882 and 1891. This included British forces who served during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and the subsequent Mahdist War, who received both the British Egypt Medal and the Khedive’s Star. Cast in bronze and lacquered, it is also known as the Khedive’s Bronze Star.
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