About: Harry J. Scott

Henry John Athelson Scott (23 July 1901 – 12 January 1978) was founding editor of the Dalesman magazine, in Yorkshire, northern England. He established the journal, originally called The Yorkshire Dalesman, from the front room of his cottage in Clapham, North Yorkshire, in 1939. He remained editor, then managing director, of The Dalesman and sister magazine Cumbria until his death in 1978, aged 76. In the meantime The Dalesman grew to become Britain's best-selling regional magazine. Scott was also an early BBC royal correspondent. During the late 1930s he described a number of royal visits to the north of England for broadcast on the BBC's Northern Programme. Later in his career he wrote a number of books about his beloved Yorkshire and his business became a prolific publisher of books in