Jill Scott (21 May 1903 – 1974) was a British racing driver and aviator. She was described as "swashbuckling" and was a distinctive figure in motor racing, dressed in cherry-red from head-to-toe whenever she appeared at the race track.^[1]

She was born Eileen May Fountain on 21 May 1903 at Birthwaite Hall in Darton, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, to Minnie Eveline (née Longley) and Joseph Fountain, a family made wealthy from their coal businesses.^[1][2]

Along with her first husband, William Berkeley "Bummer" Scott, she lived in a large house Grasmere, in Old Byfleet^[3] near the Brooklands race track in Surrey, England, and the couple were early and enthusiastic collectors of automobiles.^[2] They bought their first Sunbeam Indianapolis shortly after their marriage and quickly added several Bugattis to their collection.^[2] Their cars all wore a distinctive black livery with emerald green wheels, and the couple collected frequent trophies racing their Bugattis at the nearby track.^[2][4] Following the death of J. G. Parry-Thomas, they bought two of his cars, one of which, the 2-litre 1924-type Grand Prix Sunbeam,^[5] Scott used to exceed 120 miles-per-hour on the Brooklands track, (a lap at 120.88 m.p.h.) in September 1928. She was the woman to do so and earned the right to display a coveted British Automobile Racing Club badge acknowledging the achievement.^[2][1][6] In 1928 she became the first woman elected to the British Racing Drivers' Club.^[1]

She earned her pilot's licence (No. 8554) on 16 April 1929 in an Avro Avian Cirrus II at Brooklands School of Flying.^[7] Her 1938 portrait by Yevonde is on display at the National Portrait Gallery.^[8]

Jill and William Scott married on 21 November 1925^[9] and had a daughter, Sheila, who attended boarding schools and Cheltenham Ladies' College, and then Cambridge University.^[1]

In 1930 she divorced William and married another driver, Ernest Mortimer Thomas, who was also a former RAF pilot.^[2][1] They had raced together previously.^[10] Scott herself had learned to fly a few years earlier, and operated an Avro Avian.^[2][1] She and her new husband continued to race at Brooklands for many years, her in an Alfa Romeo and him in a Frazer Nash.^[2]

Scott died in 1974. Thomas died a few months later.^[1]