The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, Robert

SCOTT, Robert (1811-87). An English clergyman and scholar. He was born at Bondleigh in Devonshire, and educated at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he won the Craven and Ireland scholarships. He took his degree in 1833 and won a fellowship at Balliol two years later. Meantime, in 1834, he had taken holy orders. and held various ecclesiastical preferments until 1854, when he was elected master of Balliol in opposition to Jowett, who was to be his successor. In 1870 he accepted the deanery of Rochester and held it until his death. Scott's name is most widely known by his joint authorship, with H. G. Liddell, of the great Greek-English lexicon, whose appearance in 1843 was epoch-making for English scholarship. For the next forty years Liddell and Scott worked diligently at revision and addition, until the seventh edition (1883) was practically an original work, though the first had been based on the German lexicon of Passow.