Avison Scott


Avison Terry Scott was an English first-class cricketer active 1867–71 who played for Cambridge Town Club and Cambridge University. He was born in Cambridge and died in Marylebone. He later became an Anglican priest.

Family

Notable relatives

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

Own immediate relatives

Scott was the son of Canon John Scott, Vicar of Wisbech. In 1874 he married Dora, daughter of The Rev. Richard Tillard, Rector of Blakeney, Norfolk: as well as their middle child, the cricketer George they had three older and three younger children
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Education

Scott was educated at Brighton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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 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.