Charles Prestwich Scott 1846 - 1932
Charles Prestwich Scott , 8th child and 4th son. educated at Hove House, a Unitarian school in Brighton and Clapham Grammar School. After the passing of the 1854 University Act, Nonconformists were allowed to study at Oxford and Cambridge. Individual colleges could now devise their own entry rules. Scott was rejected by two colleges, Queen's and Christ Church, because he did not have a Church of England baptist certificate. However, he was accepted by Corpus Christi College and he started his studies in October 1865. editor of the Manchester Guardian 1872-1929. In 1907 he bought the paper from his 1st cousin John Edward Taylor., determined to run it again as an independent newspper and not for private gain. Kingsley Martin joined the Manchester Guardian in 1927. Martin later wrote an account of his editor. C. P. Scott was a remarkable figure. At the age of eighty he was bent nearly double, blind in one eye, but more fierce in expression than any other man I have known. He still rode his bicycle through the muddy and dangerous streets of Manchester, swaying between the tramlines, with white hair and whiskers floating in the breeze, equally oblivious of rain and traffic. Unconsciously, I am sure, he thought that no one in Manchester would hurt him. Obviously connected: Great Hucklow, Derbyshire PRESBYTERIAN (Unitarian) CHAPEL MIs Charles Prestwich SCOTT, The Minister of Richmond Hill Church, Ashton under Lyne,14 Jan 1961, 61 Isabella Civil SCOTT, 29 Dec 1980, 89 Buried in Anglesey Joseph Prestwich SCOTT, 24 Sept 1962, 71 George SCOTT, 51 years Minister **** Chapel Fenton, 5 Nov 1930, 86 Mary, w, 4 March 1931, 76 ------ He had at least 4 grandsons. See The Political Diaries of CP Scott 1911-1928 (London: Collins 1970) edited by Trevor Wilson --------------
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| Born: Bath, Somerset, England 26th Oct 1846 | Baptised:
| | Died: The Firs, Fallowfield, , , England 1st Jan 1932 | Buried: Manchester, England 1932
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| 26th Oct 1846 | Born (birth) Bath, Somerset, England | | 20th May 1874 | Married Rachel Susan Cook
(Scott ) 1848 - 1905 (marriage) London, England | | 3rd Apr 1881 | Head of household in 1881 census (census) Rusholme, Manchester, England | | 1st Jan 1932 | Died (death) Fallowfield, England | | 1932 | Buried (burial) Manchester, England |
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