Dr Joseph Scott (1870-1939) was born in Campbeltown and went to Glasgow University, graduating in medicine in 1894. He was for a short time medical officer of health in Basra, and then moved to Tehran in the late 1890s to act as surgeon to the Royal Hospital and the British Legation. He made an important study of the Tehran cholera epidemic in the 1920s and was a great promoter of vaccination and revaccination. Decorated by the Shah, Scott was granted arms in 1920 including a clever emblazoning of the Persian flag.
Or on a bend Azure a mullet between two crescents of the First, in the sinister chief an Aescalapian Rod Proper, on a chief parted per fess Vert and Gules a bar Argent.
