SCOTLAND, FREE CHURCH OF, FREE PRES- BYTERIAN CHURCH OF, REFORMED PRESBY- TERIAN CHURCH IN, UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF, UNITED ORIGINAL SECESSION CHURCH OF. See Presbyterians.
SCOTT, CHARLES ANDERSON: Presbyterian; b. in London May 30, 1859. He received his education at Uppingham School, at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1882; M.A., 1896; Hulsean prize, 1884), New College, Edinburgh, and the universities of Leipsic and Jena; was assistant minister of Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, 1887-89; minister at College Park, Willesden, 1892, and of St. John's, Kensington, 1898-1907, being also examiner in historical theology for the University of London, 1902-07; and Dunn professor of the New Testament in the Theological College of the Presbyterian Church of England at Cambridge since 1907. He has published: Ulfilas, Apostle of the Goths (London, 1885) ; Evangelical Doctrine Bible Truth (1901) ; Making of a Christian (1902) ; and contributed to the Devotional and Practical Commentary the volume on Revelation (1905), as well as the same volume in the Century Bible (1902) ; also the essay on " Jesus and Paul" in Cambridge Biblical Essays (1909).
SCOTT, HUGH McDONALD: Congregationalist; b. at Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Mar. 31, 1848; d. at Chicago Apr. 29, 1909. He was graduated from Dalhousie College, Halifax (A.B., 1870), and from the University of Edinburgh (1873). During the same year he studied at Berlin, and later (1878-81) at Leipsic. In 1874 he was ordained to the ministry, and for four years (1874-77) was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Merigomish, Nova Scotia. After 1881 he was professor of church history at the Chicago Theological Seminary. He wrote The Nicene Theology (Stone lectures; Chicago, 1896), while from 1883 to 1890 he contributed the section on church history to Current Discussions in Theology, published by the faculty of the divinity school.
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SCOTT, ISAIAH BENJAMIN: Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. in Woodford County, Ky., Sept. 30, 1854. He received his education at Clark Seminary (now Clark College), Atlanta, Ga., and Central Tennessee College (now Walden University), Nashville (B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883); entered the Tennessee conference in 1881, and was transferred to the Texas conference, where he was professor in Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, 1881, and served as pastor at Houston, Galveston, Austin, and Marshall, 1882-87; was presiding elder of the Marshall and Houston Districts, 1882-93; president of Wiley University, Marshall, Tex., 1893-96; editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, 1896-1904; was elected bishop for Africa, 1904.
SCOTT, ROBERT: Church of England; b. at Bondleigh, Devonshire, Jan. 26, 1811; d. at Rochester Dec. 2, 1887. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1833); was fellow and tutor of Balliol College, 1835-40 (M.A., 1836); rector of Duloe, Cornwall, 1840-50; prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, 1845-66; rector of South Luff enham, Rutland, 1850-54; select preacher at Oxford, 1853-54, 1874-75; master of Balliol, 1854-70; professor of Scripture exegesis, 1861-70; and dean of Rochester, 1870-87. He was a member of the New-Testament revision committee; author of Twelve Sermons (London, 1851); University Sermons (1860) ; and of a commentary on the Epistle of James (1881) in the Bible Commentary (1872-82). From 1836 to 1843 he labored together with H. G. Liddell in the preparation of the great Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford, 1843; 7th enlarged ed., 1883), upon which he was occupied all in all for fortyseven years.
Bibliography: The Guardian, Dec. 14, 1887; E. Abbott and L. Campbell, Benjamin Jowett, 3 vols., London, 1897- 1899; DNB, li. 65-66.
SCOTT, THOMAS: Church of England; b. at Braytoft, Lincolnshire, Feb. 4, 1747; d. at Aston Sandford (near Thames, 11 m. e. of Oxford), Buckinghamshire, Apr. 16, 1821. He was ordained priest in 1773, and in 1781 succeeded John Newton, who had converted him to Calvinism, as curate of Olney. In 1785 he became chaplain of the Lock Hospital, London; and in 1801, vicar of Aston Sandford. His first publication was The Force of Truth (London, 1779, and numerous editions), narrating his change from rationalistic Unitarianism to the highest type of Calvinistic fervor, a work regarded as one of the most impressive spiritual autobiographies ever written. His most important work was The Holy Bible with Notes (5 vols., 1788- 1792; very many reissues and reprints). This has long been considered a model family Bible, and has been read more widely, perhaps, than any other. It speaks volumes for Scott's industry and perseverance that without early educational advantages, oppressed by poverty, and compelled for years before his ordination to earn his living as a farm-laborer, he yet was able to acquire considerable learning, and produce a work, published under the severest pecuniary straits, yet spoken of as the greatest theological performance of his age and country. J. H.
Newman wrote of him as a man to whom he almost owed his soul. Scott's Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion were published in 1793, 15th ed., 1844; and his Village Discourses in 1825. His Works in ten vols., edited by his son, appeared 1823-25.
Bibliography: A. C. Downer, Thomas Scott the Commentator. A Memoir of his Life, London, 1909; The Life of . . T. Scott . . Including a Narrative Drawn up by himself, ib. 1822; The Life of Thomas Scott, in Chris-
tian Biography, ib. [1838?]; J. Stephen, Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography, pp. 413 sqq., 14th ed., ib. 1860; DNB, li. 73-75.