William James Edmonston-Scott (22 November 1885, Edinburgh – 1954, Toronto) was a Scottish scholar, linguist and ethnologist, with an interest in the Basque language and Gaelic literature and culture. In 1920, he submitted a doctoral thesis entitled The Laws of Sound Governing the Santal, Basque and Zulu Languages at the SOAS, University of London. During the 1920s, he contributed to An Deò-Ghréine.
He emigrated to Canada and during WWII served at the directorate of censorship in Ottawa. He was involved in editing Celtic Forum: A Journal of Celtic Opinion (1934-35, Toronto).
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘The German Basques of Britain’ [essay, ENG], Volume VII, Issue 2 (Spring 1910)
- ‘The Traditional Genesis of the Fenian Saga’ [essay, ENG], Issue 78, Volume 38 (Summer 1915) & Issue 79, Volume 38 (Autumn 1915)