The Times/1918/Obituary/Edward John Long Scott

DEATH OF AN ARCHÆOLOGIST

Dr. Edward John Long Scott, formerly Keeper of Manuscripts ad Egerton Librarian at the British Museum and Keeper of Muniments at Westminster Abbey, was seized with sudden illness during the morning service in Westminster Abbey yesterday morning, He was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, where he died in the afternoon.

The second son of the late George H. C. Scott, Rector of Rhôs-Crowther, Pembrokeshire, Dr. Scott was born at Bridgwater in April, 1840, and was therefore in his 79th year. He was educated at Marlborough and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he gained a classical scholarship in 1859, and a Goldmsith's Company exhibition two years later. In 1862 he won the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, taking his degree in the same year. Wtih all this, he found time also to take part in college rowing and cricket, and was a member of both the eight and the eleven. A year after he took his degree he was appointed assistant in the M.S.S. Department of the British Museum, being promoted to Assistant Keeper in 1870 and Keeper in 1888. He took the degree of D.Litt. at Oxford in 1902. Dr. Scott wrote in 1880 the Introduction to the Reprint of the Eikon Basilike, and published the Eclogues of Virgil in English verse, and edited the Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey for the Camden Society in 1884. These were followed in later years by other works, including "Records of Harrow," published in 1886.