W. (William) Scott-Elliot

Born in 1849, William Scott-Elliot was a Scottish writer and Theosophist associated with the late-19th-century occult movement. He is most closely linked with writings that expanded on Theosophical teachings about human origins and ancient civilizations, especially The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria.

His work drew on ideas circulating in the Theosophical Society and presented dramatic accounts of vanished continents, root races, and prehistoric humanity. Although these claims are not accepted as history or science, his books became influential within occult and esoteric circles.

Scott-Elliot died in 1919, but his name remains tied to some of the best-known Theosophical writings on Atlantis and Lemuria. Today he is remembered less as a conventional historian than as a figure in the history of modern esoteric thought.