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Thomas Scott
(1747-1821), Commentator on the BibleSitter in 4 portraits
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Fergus Pearson
20 February 2018, 13:59
Thomas Scott (1747-1821) was a Church of England minister. He served as curate in villages in Buckinghamshire, and then in the town of Olney. In 1785 he became a co-Chaplain at the Lock Hospital Chapel, just off Grosvenor Place, SW1. From 1803 until his death he was Rector of the little village of Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire. He was a prime mover in establishing the Church Missionary Society, and was its first secretary. He wrote a spiritual autobiography called The Force of Truth, and was one of the foremost Church of England Evangelicals of his day, publishing a commentary on the whole Bible that made his name a household word in Britain and America into the 20th Century.