Avison Scott

Reverend Avison Terry Scott (18 July 1848 – 18 June 1925) was an English first-class cricketer active from 1867–71, and who played for Cambridge Town Club (aka Cambridgeshire) and Cambridge University. He was born in Cambridge and died in Marylebone.[1] He later became an Anglican priest.[2]


Avison Terry Scott
Archdeacon of Tonbridge
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Canterbury
In office1906–1925
PredecessorInaugural incumbent
SuccessorLeonard Savill
Other post(s)Vicar of Tonbridge Wells
1886–1925
Orders
Ordination1871 (deacon)
1872 (priest)
Personal details
Born(1848-07-18)18 July 1848
Cambridge, England, England
Died18 June 1925(1925-06-18) (aged 76)
Marylebone, London, England
DenominationAnglican
ResidenceTunbridge Wells
ParentsJohn Scott and Charlotte Anne, née Terry
SpouseDora née Tillard
Children5s; 2d
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Family

Notable relatives

Scott was a descendant of the commentator Thomas Scott; nephew of Sir George Gilbert Scott; first cousin of George Gilbert Scott Jr.; uncle of Elliot Dowell Tillard; first cousin once removed of Giles Gilbert Scott; and father of George Arbuthnot Scott.

Own immediate relatives

Scott was the son of Canon John Scott, Vicar of Wisbech, the brother of the architect George Gilbert Scott.[3] In 1874 he married Dora (Dorothea Sarah), daughter of The Rev. Richard Tillard, Rector of Blakeney, Norfolk: as well as their middle child, the cricketer George they had three older (John Wilfrid; Amy Florence; and Charles Tillard) and three younger children (Arthur Avison; Walter Leonard; Anna Dorothea).

Education

Scott was educated at Brighton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]

Ecclesiastical career

After serving curacies at Swaffham and Wimbledon he became the incumbent at Christ Church, Bootle in 1879. In 1886, he was appointed Vicar of St James, Tunbridge Wells. In 1895 he additionally took on the responsibility of chaplain to the Tonbridge Union Workhouse [5] In 1906 the Bishop of Rochester obtained an Order in Council to create an Archdeaconry of Tonbridge and nominated Scott to be the first incumbent.[6]

References
  1. www.Cricinfo
  2. St James, Tunbridge Wells
  3. ‘SCOTT, Ven. Avison Terry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 Nov 2016
  4. John Venn, John Archibald Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Part 2 vol. 5 p. 441 (Cambridge, CUP, 1953)
  5. National Archives
  6. Archdeacon Scott The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 19, 1925; pg. 18; Issue 43992
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