Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the youngest son of the late Hon. Henry Robert Hepburn-Scott of Knipton, Leicestershire and his wife Lady Ada n¢ee Douglas Home of Nisbet Mill, Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scotland, who was the daughter of Cospatrick, the 11th Earl of Home. Francis was educated at Remenham, Henley on Thames and Ascham School, Bournemouth, Hampshire, and entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet on HMS Britannia on the 24th May 1901, he became Sub Lieutenant in March 1907 and Lieutenant on the 31st December 1908, he was invalided out of the service in August 1912 owing to deafness. He then went to British Columbia and when war broke out was at Kitselas on the Skeener River, Prince Rupert. He immediately went to Vancouver City and joined the 1st Company, Canadian Engineers. He came over with the first contingent in October 1914, embarked for France in February 1915, and died on the 4th May 1915 in Boulogne Hospital from wounds received in action on the Ypres Canal two days previously. He was buried in the British Military Division, Boulogne Cemetery, Grave number 1885. He received the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving life at sea on the 15th January 1910, while acting as Lieutenant on HMS Hindustan off Spithead. Francis was unmarried. His enlistment documents record that he gave his trade or calling as Prospector, and his next of kin as F. C. Scott of Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He stated he had previously served for 10 years in the Royal Navy. Information taken from his medical examination shows that he was 6 foot and ½ inch in height with a chest measurement of 37 to 40 ½ inches. His complexion was described as fair with hazel eyes and light brown hair. It was noted that he had three vaccination scars on his left arm. He gave his religion as Church of England.