Background
Born in London on 2 May 1813 (13 May according to another source), he was the second son of Thomas Scott, merchant, of Clement"s Lane and Newington, Surrey.
Born in London on 2 May 1813 (13 May according to another source), he was the second son of Thomas Scott, merchant, of Clement"s Lane and Newington, Surrey.
He was Michel scholar in 1834-1838, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1835 and Master of Arts
In October 1827 he was entered at Merchant Taylors" School, and on 14 June 1831 he matriculated at The Queen"s College, Oxford, as Michel exhibitioner. in 1839. Ordained deacon in 1836 and priest in 1837, he held three curacies, the last of which was under William Dodsworth at Christ Church, Albany Street, London. In 1839 he was made perpetual curate of Christ Church, Hoxton, where he remained till 1860, and was widely known as ‘Scott of Hoxton.’ In 1860 he was appointed by Lord-chancellor John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell vicar of Street Olave"s, Jewry, with Street Martin Pomeroy.
When in 1841 the Christian Remembrancer was set up, he was made co-editor with Francis Garden.
In 1844, when it became a quarterly, James Bowling Mozley for a short time succeeded Garden, but during a large part of the life of the paper, which ended in 1868, Scott was sole editors Scott took a leading part in the agitation following the Gorham judgment.
His ‘Letter to the Review Daniel Wilson,’ 1850, a reply to Daniel Wilson"s bitter attack on the Tractarians, passed through four editions.
In 1846 he joined Edward Pusey and his associates in their efforts to prevent the ordination at Street Paul"s Cathedral of Samuel Gobat, the Lutheran bishop-elect of Jerusalem.
Ten years later he was, with Pusey, John Keble, and others, one of the eighteen clergy who signed the protest against Archbishop Thomas Sumner"s condemnation of Archdeacon George Anthony Denison. Scott"s advice was sought by the bishops Henry Phillpotts and Walter Kerr Hamilton. He was one of the prime movers in the formation in 1848 of the London Union on Church Matters, and from 1859 onwards was chairman of the committee of the Ecclesiological Society.
He was one of the chief advisers of Henry Hart Milman and Henry Longueville Mansel in the work of restoration at Street Paul"s Cathedral, acting for some time as honorary secretary of the restoration committee.
In 1858 Scott was elected president of Sion College, and next year published a continuation of the ‘Account’ of the College by John Russell. Scott died on 11 January 1872 of spinal disease, and was buried in Highgate cemetery.
Scott was an active member of the high-church party. He was among the founders of the Saturday Review, to which he contributed, and was a member of Mr. William Gladstone"s election committees at Oxford.