Author: Scott, George Erving
Biography:
SCOTT, George Erving (1797-1872: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 18 Feb. 1797 at New Alresford, Hampshire, the son of George Scott and his wife Euphine Jane Cussans. As a young lieutenant in the 52nd light infantry, he fought at Waterloo. After the war he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and won the Chancellor’s Medal with his poem, Waterloo (1820). He married Louisa Jane Scott (1805-1839), third daughter of Admiral Matthew Henry Scott, on 1 June 1831 at All Saints, Southampton. They had at least six children. She died on 23 June 1839 at their house in Kensington Square, possibly due to childbirth complications. A daughter, Rose, was baptised in August. In London he traded as a wine merchant with premises at 163 Fleet Street. At some stage he moved to Somerset where he was married for a second time, on 4 July 1848, to Agnes Ward at Over Stowey. They had at least five children. By 1861 he was living alone (with two servants) in Weston super Mare and may have separated from his wife. He died of lung failure at 29 Victoriastrasse, Dresden, 20 May 1872, with his daughter Louisa Mary in attendance. (ancestry.co.uk 16 Oct. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 16 Oct. 2020; Star 11 June 1831; Examiner 30 June 1839; Taunton Courier 19 July 1848; Homeward Mail 10 June 1872) AA