Allen Jack Scott

Allen Jack Scott is a Caymanian citizen, son of Captain Allen Scott (Cayman Brac), grandson to Captain Devey E. Scott (Little Cayman), great-grandson of Captain James Allen Scott (Little Cayman), and generations of Caymanian seamen before them, going back to the earliest Scott ancestor in the Cayman Islands. Mr. Scott's family is one of the many Caymanian families who were forced to find a living outside the Cayman Islands during the Great Depression of the 1930's just to survive. Like most such Caymanian families, Mr. Scott's family settled in a major American seaport in order to find maritime work, in their case, Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Scott's grandfather and father both earned their American citizenship, like so many other Caymanian maritime heroes, by service to the Crown and the Allies in World War II.

Allen Jack Scott, a Caymanian and American citizen, grew up on the Jacksonville waterfront, taking early work as a machinist helper in Jacksonville Shipyards and working as a deckhand for some years as a callout deckhand on harbor and offshore tugboats in his teens. Mr. Scott went to sea as an ordinary seaman for several years to help pay his way through college, which ultimately earned him a degree, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English, from Jacksonville University. After service in the United States Army (Airborne) Special Forces during the Viet Nam conflict, Mr. Scott also earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of Florida and has successfully practiced law in the Southeastern United States since 1973. Several years ago, Mr. Scott was certified by the Florida Supreme Court to serve as a Circuit Court Civil

Mediator and Foreclosure Mediator. Mr. Scott's passion, besides hunting and sailing, is the research and writing about the history of the Cayman Islands. He has written a historical novel, Cayman Cross, after years of research, and is currently working on an number of additional Cayman history projects and several other writings