The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, Edward John Long

SCOTT, Edward John Long (1840— ). An English scholar and author, born in Bridgewater, Somerset. He graduated at Lincoln College. Oxford, in 1862, in 1863 entered the manuscript department of the British Museum, and in 1888 was appointed keeper of the manuscripts and Egerton librarian. His publications include: Introduction to Reprint Eikon Basilike (1880): a translation in verse of the Eclogues of Vergil (1884); Private Diary of Shakespeare's Cousin, Thomas Greene, Town-Clerk of Stratford-on-Avon (1883); William Harvey's Original Lectures on the Circulation of the Blood (1886).