But when Donald Trump mentioned Robert E. Scott 18 times in the footnotes for a major economic speech in June and 11 times in his convention speech, Scott, a Washington think tanker, balked.

Robert Falcon Scott was born on 6 June 1868 in Devonport. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and served on a number of Royal Navy ships in the 1880s and 1890s. He attracted the notice of the ...