(Material researched & presented by Barbara Armstrong)

Son of Hubert Payne Scott, Cyril was born in 1880 at Lewisham, Kent. Cyril and his family arrived in Sydney on the ‘Windsor Castle’ on 13 January 1887.

As a child he was good at chess, taking part in a chess tournament in 1895 and writing a series of letters to the Sydney Morning Herald on chess. In 1910 he married Amy Neal.

From 1936 the Sands Directory lists him as a homoeopathist, living at 10 Warrane Road, Chatswood. He died in 1942.

His daughter, Ruby, became the first woman in radio astronomy.

(Thanks to Dr Elizabeth Hall for her contributions to this entry)

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