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GB-2014-WSA-15368 · Person · 1913-1988

Scott, Ursel Baliol, brother of Napier Baliol Scott (qv); b. 25 Apr. 1913; adm. May 1927 (A); left July 1931; LSE 1931-3; stock control RAOC 1939-45; Internat. Committee for Scientific Man­agement 1945-8; succeeded his father as editor and publisher of Mining Journal; hon. Fellow Inst. of Mining and Metallurgy 1976; m. 1st 24 Feb. 1945 Dorothy, d. of Rev. F. Barham Foster of Market Weston, Suffolk; 2nd 26 July 1982 Dorothy Hewitt; 3rd 1987 Sheelagh Scott; d. 20 Jan. 1988.

Scott, Thomas, fl. 1687
GB-2014-WSA-15367 · Person · fl. 1687

SCOTT, THOMAS, son of Thomas Scott, Elworthy, Somerset; b.; adm.; a letter written by Richard Healy to Richard Busby (qv), dated Wells 3 Mar 1685, recommends “one Thomas Scott, a little yellow-headed boy in your Schoole” for election as KS (Busby Trustees Archive); KS 1687; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1692, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1692, aged 18, scholar 28 Apr 1693, matr. 1693; clerk to Secretary of State, Scotland, c. 1710; Under Secretary to Duke of Roxburghe when Secretary of State for Scotland Dec 1716 – Aug 1725; author comedies The Mock Marriage, performed at Thestre in Dorset Gardens, 1696, and Unhappy Kindness, or the Fruitless Revenge, performed at Theatre Royal, 1697.

GB-2014-WSA-15366 · Person · 1883-1953

Scott, Reginald Basset Joyce, son of Edward John Long Scott, Litt.D., keeper of the MSS. British Museum, by Anna F. K., only daughter of Edward T. Donoghue; b. June 12, 1883; adm. May 6, 1897 (H); left July 1901; a journalist; m. July 31, 1923, Marie Frances, daughter of Arthur Morley Hurst, of Nuwara Eliga, Ceylon; d. June 20, 1953·

GB-2014-WSA-15365 · Person · 1919-1974

Scott, Ralph Henry Forster, son of Dixon Scott of Tynemouth and Virginia Bradfield, d. of Fred­ erick Duffel! of Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. 5 Feb. 1919; adm. Jan. 1932 (R); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric: 1937, BA 1941, MA 1944; Roy. Warks Regt 1940-5 (Capt.); called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) Nov. 1947; a co. director; d. 29 May 1974.

GB-2014-WSA-15364 · Person · ca. 1735-?

SCOTT, PAUL ELLERS, son of John Scott, Dublin, “doctor”, and Elizabeth Ellors (sic : IGI); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1746; KS 1750; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1755, matr. 28 May 1755, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1756 – res 12 Dec 1757; 2nd Lieut., 23rd Foot 26 Apr 1757, retd. 1758; ordained; Curate, St. Paul, Covent Garden, in 1768-70; m. 22 Nov 1762 Mary Elly (IGI). [father perhaps Rev. John Scott DD ?]

GB-2014-WSA-15363 · Person · 1903-1956

Scott, Napier Baliol, son of Edward Baliol Scott, of Weybridge, Surrey, barrister-at-law, by Gladys Agnes, daughter of William Charles Perry Grant, R.N.; b. Dec. 25, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (R); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. Aug. 1922, matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1927; played chess for Oxford against Cambridge 1925; worked 1929-34 in Paris with Wallace Clark, the American pioneer in the field of scientific management; with Harrods Stores 1934-9 and Harold Whitehead and Partners 1939-40; joined the organisation and methods division of the Treasury Dec. 1939; Middle East Supply Centre 1942; personal adviser to Director of Organisation at the Treasury 1943; Bengal Administration Committee 1944 Ministry of Supply 1948-51; Director of Organisation and Methods, Civil Service, 1951 : under-secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1952; d. as the result of a road accident Sept. 18. 1956; unm.

GB-2014-WSA-15362 · Person · 1925-1998

Scott, Michael George, son of Alfred George Scott, architect, of St Andrews, Fife, and Eleanor, d. of Charles John Jackson of Ilkeston, Derbs; b. 2 June 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (KS); left July 1943; Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1943, matric. 1947, BA 1950; Edinburgh Coll. of Art 1952-7; an architect, ARIBA 1957; practised at St Andrews, Fife; m. 5 Oct. 1957 Nan Barbro, d. of Ivar-Anders Svensson of Vaxjo, Sweden; d. 1 Sept. 1998.

Scott, K., fl. 1750
GB-2014-WSA-15361 · Person · fl. 1750

SCOTT, K.; b.; in school lists 1750-2, 1754; a schoolfriend of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (qv) (Emily F. D. Osborn, ed, Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the XVIIIth Century 1721-1771, 96).