The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, Thomas (1747-1821)

SCOTT, Thomas (1747-1821). An English Bible commentator. He was born at Braytoft, Lincolnshire, and spent the early years of his life as a grazier. In 1773 he was ordained priest and became curate in Buckinghamshire; he succeeded John Newton, curate of Olney, in 1781; was chaplain to the Lock hospital in 1785; and rector of Aston Sandford in 1803. Among his publications are: The Force of Truth (1770); The Articles of the Synod of Dort, translated (1818); and his commentary on the Bible (1788-92), which had immense circulation and influence in its day. His collected works appeared in 10 volumes (1823-25), and his Letters and Papers (1824), edited by his son, who also wrote his Life (1822), including in it a valuable autobiographical fragment.