John Scott, born 1851 in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

[Forfarian]

Yes. The 1925 VR lists Colonel John Scott as proprietor occupier of Ruthmore, Victoria Road, Lenzie, parish of Cadder, which looks like a spelling error either in the VR or in the index.

[MonicaL]

..as proved by the telegram to  my parents received in 1944 at my birth (Auntie Lottie with Betty and Nora, 54, Belmont Street, Glasgow).

Making some headway on R W Smith who we now know was Robert. His full name was Robert Watson Smith and by sheer co-incidence, died the year you were born...

A Glasgow boy it seems www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQQ6-JL4

See also www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH16428&type=P&o=&start=0&max=99197&l=s

[Lionel-W]

The 1920 valuation roll on SP has John Scott listed as proprietor occupier of a house called Rathmore in Victoria Road, parish of Cadder, Lanarkshire.

... and Cadder (pronounced "Cawder", so I've found out) was where Robert Henry Brownlie Scott (b. 1877), [older brother of Charlotte Elizabeth Snell King Scott (b. 1878), my grandmother, Mary Pennycuik Whamond Scott (b. 1879), Thomas King Scott (b. 1881), Elizabeth King Scott (b. 1883), Mary A. M. Scott (b.& d. 1885), Catherine Maude Scott (b.1887), and Alice Scott (b. 1889)] died in 1945.

The grave of John Scott is on the list of the "Auld Aisle Cemetery & Burial Ground, Kirkintilloch", correctly dated 01.07.1932, although he died in Glasgow.

[Lionel-W]

Making some headway on R W Smith who we now know was Robert. His full name was Robert Watson Smith and by sheer co-incidence, died the year you were born...

A Glasgow boy it seems www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQQ6-JL4

See also www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH16428&type=P&o=&start=0&max=99197&l=s

Great - and now we've also got the names of his parents and that he was a chemical engineer from the University of Glasgow! Being "busy" myself, I've also found his brother "Alexander", born on 25.09.1867.

[Forfarian]

Cadder (pronounced "Cawder", so I've found out)

Like Cawdor in the county of Nairn. I believe that both are from the same origin as the surname Calder and there was a registration district called Calderhead. This is after one of the rivers - North Calder Water and South Calder Water, known locally, I believe, as the Cawder. (Not to be confused with the River Calder in Yorkshire, England or the Rotten Calder south of the Clyde.)