John Burnett was an Anglican priest in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Scott was educated at the Australian College of Theology and ordained in deacon in 1953 and priest in 1954. After a curacy at Thornbury he was the incumbent at Northcote from 1957 to 1960; and Swan Hill from 1960 to 1965. He was Archdeacon of St Arnaud from 1965 to 1968; and of The Murray from 1968 to 1969, then Archdeacon of Mallee (1969-70) and again of St Arnaud (1970-72).