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ROBERT SCOTT (1811-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT SCOTT (1811-1887)  ,
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English divine and lexicographer, was born on the 26th of
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January 1811, at Bondleigh in Devonshire, where his
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father was rector . Educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, after a brilliant university career he was elected
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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
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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
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great
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literary achievement, which may be said to constitute his
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life's
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work, was his collaboration with Dean Liddell in the Greek
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lexicon which bears their names . He died at Rochester on the 2nd of December 1887 .

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