SCOTT 



of Exeter College, Oxford, and St John's College, 

 Oxford, an. I the Episcopal cathedral at Kilinlmr^li 

 may be specified ; but countless other notici* of 

 hi* work are Mattered throughout thU work under 

 the different towns. He was elected an A.K.A. 

 in 1859, an K. A. in 1861 ; held the professorship 

 of Architecture at the Academy ; and was knighted 

 in 1872. He died 27th March 1878, and was buried 

 in Westminster Abbey. 



8e hit Fertonal and Profational ReeoUtttimu ( 1879), 

 and an artiola in the BniUer for 6th April 1878. 



Scull. -I. R HOPE. See HOPE SCOTT. 



8ctt, MICHAEL, a medieval sage, who U said 

 to have been astrologer to Kaiser Frederick IL 

 (1194-1230), and to have translated for him, 

 through the Arabic, some of the works of Aris- 

 totle, with Averrhoea' commentaries. His trans- 

 lation was apparently used by Albertus Magnus, 

 and seems to have been one of the two familiar 

 to Dante (see Jourdain, Traductioiu Latines 

 tCArittott; and the Academy, January 1892, p. 14). 

 Dante, who died in 1321, alludes to him in the 

 Inferno (canto xx., 115-117) in a way which proves 

 that his fame as a magician must already have 

 spread over Km ! ; and he is also referred to by 

 Albertus Magnus and Vincent of Beauvais, and 

 this really is all that we know of him. Dempster 

 ( 1027 ) may be right in maintaining that ' Scotus ' 

 was the name, of hU nation, not of his family, in 

 which cone he would be probably an Irishman ; 

 but by Roece (1527) he was boldly identified with 

 a Sir Michael Scott of Balwearie, near Kirk 

 caldy, in Fife, who went on two embassies to 

 Norway in 1290 and 1310. Camden, again ( 1580), 

 amerte that he wan a Cistercian monk of Holme 

 Cultram in Cumberland ; and Satchel Is, that in 

 1629 he had examined at Bnrgh-under-Bowncss a 

 huge tome which was held to be his arimoire. 

 In Bonier folklore the ' wondrous wizard ' of Sir 

 Walter's Lay in credited with having 'cleft the 

 Eildon Hills in three, and bridled the Tweed with 

 a curb of stone ;' and his grave is of course shown 

 in Melrose Abbey. Nay, the ' Jingler's Room ' in 

 Oakwood Tower, near Selkirk, U pointed out as 

 his. though Oakwood dates only from the 16th 

 century. See monograph by J. Wood Brown ( 1897). 



Krott, MICHAEL, author of Tom Cringle's Log, 

 was born in Glasgow, 30th Octolier 1789, and, after 

 attending some classes at the university, went to 

 eek his fortune in Jamaica. He spent a number 

 of years in the West Indies, but in 1822 estab- 

 lished himself in business in Glasgow, where he 

 died, 7th November 1835. In 1829 he published 

 anonymously in Blackwood'a Magazine the brilliant 

 erial story, Tom Cringle'* Log, which, like The 

 Onute^ of the Midge, another of his numerous con- 

 tributions to 'Maga,' has been often republished 

 separately. 



eott> ROBERT. See LIDDELL. 



Hrott, THOMAS, commentator, was born the 

 tenth of a grazier's thirteen children at Braytoft, 

 in Lincolnshire, February 16, 1747. He studied 

 hard in spite of drawbacks as a surgeon's appren- 

 tice and farm Inlxmrer, and received priest's orders 

 from Bixhoii Green of Lincoln in 1773. He became 

 ennl<- of We-ioii I nderwood, and in 1780 suc- 

 ceeded as curate at Olney the famous John Newton, 

 wbowj characteristic Calvinistic theology he had 

 already imbibed. In 1785 he became lecturer to 

 ill- UMM I--M-U Hospital, and in 1803 was pre- 

 ferred to the rectorship of Aston Sand ford in 

 Bucko, where he died, April 16, 1821. His Force 

 of Truth (1779) has great autobiographic interest, 

 and Kttayi on the Mott Important Subjertt in Re- 

 ligion (1793) long enjoyed and deserved celebrity. 

 but his name i liest remembered by his Bible, vn'th 

 RffUuuUcrv Note* (6 vols. 1788-92 ; 6th and best 



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ed. 6 vols. 1822). The prospectus of the 1850 

 edition stated that already 500,000 had been 

 |>aid by purchasers for copies of this work, which 

 is beyond doubt a remarkable monument of sound 

 learning and exegetical sagacity. 



Hi* complete Works, including sermons and treatise* 

 doctrinal and controversial, were edited by his ion, the 

 Rev. John Scott i 10 voU 1H2S-25), who also published a 

 Life, partly autobiographical (1822). 



Scott, Sin WAI.TKR (created a baronet 1819), 

 the greatest of Scottish men of letters, ami prob- 

 ably the best beloved author who 

 ever lived, was Ixirn in the Col- 

 lege Wymi of Edinburgh on Aug. 

 15, 1771. His father, Walter Scott, was a Writer 

 to the Signet ; his mother's maiden name was Anne 

 Rutherford, daughter of Dr John Hutherford, pro- 

 fessor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. 

 Scott thus sprung from the professional middle 

 classes, but on both sides he came 'of gentle 

 blood.' When ho blazoned his quartering* on the 

 roof of the entrance-hall of Abbots ford three 

 shields of the sixteen had to lie left blank, through 

 a difficulty about the |>edigreeof the Itutherfordsof 

 II nut hi II. Nevertheless, he came of the best blood 

 on the Border, Scotts, Swintons, and Kutherfords. 

 His great-grandfather was the grandson of Auld 

 Wat of Harden, who married the Flower of 

 Yarrow in 1567, and whose son again married 

 Muckle Mou'il Meg of Klihank. The facts of 

 Sc.. it's history are too universally known to be 

 dwelt upon at length. A recent ingenious writer 

 has tried to show that genius is a ' sport ' or acci- 

 dental variety of the consumptive and nervous 

 temperament. It is certain that the first six chil- 

 dren of Scott's father and mother died between 

 175!) and 1766. Locks of their hair, still glossy and 

 golden, lay in Sir Walter's ..'real desk, in his study 

 at Abliotsford. < If the other six children only two, 

 Walter and Thomas, left issue ; the present de- 

 scendants of Sir Walter Scott are the children 

 of the Hon. Mrs Maxwell Scott, daughter of 

 Mis Hope-Scott, who again was the (laughter of 

 Sir Walter's daughter Sophia, who married Mi- 

 John Gibson Lockliart. The mother of Sir Walter 

 survived all her children except the poet and Mr 

 Thomas Scott. Scott himself, though one of the 

 strongest men of his time, with a larger biceps, the 

 Kit iiek Shepherd tells us, than any man of the 

 liougli Clan, nearly died in infancy ' in consequence 

 of his first nurse Iwing ill of a consumption.' At 

 eighteen months he was suddenly affected with 

 fever in teething, and lost the power of his right 

 leg. In his third year he was sent to his grand- 

 father's farm at Sandy k no we, where he was taught, 

 not without difficulty, to read, and learned and 

 shout eil the ballad of l/uriti/kitiilr. For alnmt a 

 year and a half he was at Bath, then returned to 

 George Sciiiare, in Kdinhnrgli, where he astonished 

 Mrs Cockburn (a Rutherford of Fainiilee, and 

 author of The Flotaen of the Forest) by his infant 

 genius. Still lame, he was taken to Preston im us 

 (agi-d eight), where he met a veteran named Dal 

 getty and Mr George Constable, from whom (and 

 from himself) he drew Monkbarns, and heard of 

 Falstaff. Thence he returned, ' a grandam's child,' 

 to George Square, where he lived, always reading 

 and repeating ballads and ]x>etry. In 1779 he was 

 sent to the Ili^-h School of Kilinlmrgh, where he 

 suffered from the MMI-C]C*S Scottish system of giv- 

 ing ' removes ' each year, and from the coteries 

 formed in large classes. He amused the lioys with 

 tales ; he was ready to fight, ' strapped to a board.' 

 as he was lame ; he made game of Kimis's friend, 

 the blackguard dominie, Nicol ; he fought in 

 bickers with Greenbreeks ; he wrote some hnglish 

 verse ; he learned some Latin from Dr Adam, the 

 rector or head-master. His schooling was inter- 



