APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX A. 



[For the following Notice of George Scott, of whom no biographical notice could 

 be given in the 'Memorials ' (p. 5), the Editor is indebted to Edw. Forsier, 

 Esq., Fice-P resident of the Linnaan Society.'} 



GEORGE SCOTT, Esq., P.R.S., the Editor of his uncle Derham's Select 

 Remains of the Learned John Ray/ was Lord of the Manor of Woolston 

 Hall, in the parish of Chigwell, in the county of Essex. This manor and 

 seat had been in the family many generations, of which he was the twelfth and 

 last of-%} name; from him it was inherited by Robert Bodle, Esq., de- 

 scended from the daughter and only child of his great grandfather's second 

 and youngest son George, Mr. Scott being the grandson of William, the 

 eldest. 



This manor was granted, about the beginning of King Henry the Seventh's 

 reign, to William Scott, of Stapleford Tawney, in the same county, who was 

 lineally descended from Sir William Scott, Lord Chief Justice of England, 

 and Justice of the Forests in the reign of King Edward the Third, whose 

 papers and silver drinking-cup were in the possession of George Scott, the 

 subject of this memoir, who was born in Watling street, London, on the 

 29th December, 1719, and was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, where 

 he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1743, and an honorary degree of 

 Doctor of Common Laws was conferred on him in 1763. He was married on 

 the 13th of May, 1746, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, to Jane, daughter 

 of Dr. Edmund Gibson, Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards London, the inti- 

 mate friend of Ray, who communicated the County Lists of Rare Plants in 

 the Bishop's edition of Camdeffs Britannia, with the exception of Middlesex, 

 which was furnished by Petiver. George Scott gave some assistance in 

 family history, in a subsequent edition. His aunt Anne, daughter of William 

 Scott, married Dr. William Derham, rector of Upminster, the author of the 

 'Select Remains.' George Scott died a widower, without children, on the 

 26th August, 1780, and was buried in the parish church of Cliigwell, on the 

 5th of September in that year. His wife died on the 5th of January, 1770, 

 and was buried on the 21st, in the Bishop's vault at Fulham. There is no 

 monument or inscription for him among those of his ancestors in what is 

 called the Scott chapel in the parish church. The only memorials of him and 

 his wife are their achievements against the walls. It is rather remarkable that, 

 among those of the Scott family, there is an achievement for Bishop Gibson, 

 and another for Dr. William Scott, President of St. John's College, Oxford, 

 son of the rector of Upminster, and therefore Scott's cousin, neither of whom 

 dwelt in Chigwell. 



This zealous antiquary resided some time in Sackville street, Piccadilly, 

 which house he disposed of on the death of his wife, which happened in 1770, 

 and also gave up a residence at Bath, and from that time lived entirely at the 

 family seat, Woolston Hall, perhaps rather recluse, as the Rev. Michael 

 Tyson, rector of Lamborn, the adjoining parish to Chigwell, in a familiar 



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