Author: Scott, Thomas
Biography:
SCOTT, Thomas (1765-1846: Copsey)
He was baptised on 24 Jan. 1765 at St. Mary’s, Cray, Kent, the son of Thomas Scott and his wife Mary Newman, who had married in the same church the previous year. He was educated at Lincoln College Oxford (matric. 1783) before migrating to Magdalen 1785-92 (BA 1787, MA 1790, BD 1808). He entered the church and was ordained deacon (1787) and priest (1790) but his early clerical career is as yet unknown. He was Curate at Ashurst, Kent, from 1818 and Chaplain at Bromley College from 1821 until at least 1842. He was Rector of Onehouse, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, from 1834 and Vicar of Isleham, Cambs., from 1831 until his death. He married a woman named Margaret, very possibly the Margaret Howlett who married Rev. Thomas Scott on 12 June 1792 at Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, Suffolk. She died on 2 Dec. 1831 and was buried at St. Mary’s, Cray, where there is a memorial inscription to her (and to his parents). He died on 30 May 1846 and was also buried at St. Mary’s, Cray. In addition to the work listed here, he published two further short poems: An Exhortation to the Lord’s Supper (1834) and In Commemoration of the Consecration of the New Church on Bromley Common (1842). Magdalen College Oxford holds manuscript poems and letters (Ms. 348). (Copsey 1: 426; ancestry.co.uk 26 May 2022; CCEd 26 May 2022; Kentish Gazette 9 June 1846; kentarchaelogy.org MI St. Mary’s Cray) AA
Other Names:
- Thos. Scott