Scott, Thomas ( - )

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 2625
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-2831)
Name
Thomas Scott
Title
Mr.
Gender
Male
Lived
b. d. (old)
Linked Sermons
Source of Data

ACAD (Venn) (ID: SCT596T); Kevin Sharpe, The Personal Rule of Charles I (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 372-73; Peter E. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 175 n. 24; Hannah Yip.

Biographical Sources Consulted

ACAD (Venn) (ID: SCT596T); Kevin Sharpe, The Personal Rule of Charles I (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 372-73; Peter E. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 175 n. 24

Other note

The exact birth date of Thomas Scott is unknown. He was admitted pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1596, graduating B.A. in 1600/1 and proceeding M.A. in 1604. He was also awarded the degree of B.D. in 1611. In 1612, Scott became rector of St Clement's Church, Ipswich. He was suspended and absolved by Bishop Matthew Wren, and reinstated in 1614. He held the living until 1638. Scott was also a royal chaplain.

GEMMS record created
January 11, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024