ROBERT

See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• ROBERT SCOTT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

SCOTT (1811-1887)  , English divine and lexicographer, was born on the 26th of January 1811, at Bondleigh in Devonshire, where his father was rector . Educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, after a brilliant university career he was elected fellow of Balliol, where he was tutor from 1835 to 1840 . After holding successively the college livings of Duloe and South Luffenham, in 1854 he was elected master of Balliol . This office he held, together (from 1861) with that of the professorship of the exegesis of Holy Scriptures, down to 187o, when he accepted the deanery of Rochester . As master of Balliol he kept the college up to the high level it had attained under his predecessor Dr Jenkyns . As a Greek scholar, he had few equals among his contemporaries . His great literary achievement, which may be said to constitute his life's work, was his collaboration with Dean Liddell in the Greek lexicon which bears their names . He died at Rochester on the 2nd of December 1887 .