# Avison Scott > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Avison_Scott > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Avison_Scott.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avison_Scott > Source revision: 1351564014 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|Very Rev}} | name = Avison Terry Scott | title = [Archdeacon of Tonbridge](/source/Archdeacon_of_Tonbridge) | image = | imagesize = | caption = | church = [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) | diocese = [Diocese of Canterbury](/source/Diocese_of_Canterbury) | term = 1906–1925 | predecessor = [Inaugural incumbent](/source/Incumbent_(ecclesiastical)) | successor = [Leonard Savill](/source/Leonard_Savill) | other_post = [Vicar](/source/Vicar) of [Tunbridge Wells](/source/Tunbridge_Wells)
1886–1925 | ordination = 1871 (deacon)
1872 (priest) | consecration = | consecrated_by = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|7|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge), England, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|6|18|1848|7|18|df=yes}} | death_place = [Marylebone](/source/Marylebone), [London](/source/London), England | religion = [Anglican](/source/Anglicanism) | residence = [Tunbridge Wells](/source/Tunbridge_Wells) | parents = John Scott and Charlotte Anne, née Terry | spouse = Dora née Tillard | children = 5s; 2d | alma_mater = [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge) }} [Reverend](/source/Reverend) '''Avison Terry Scott''' (18 July 1848 – 18 June 1925) was an English [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket)er active from 1867 to 1871, and who played for [Cambridge Town Club](/source/Cambridge_Town_Club) (''aka'' Cambridgeshire) and [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club).{{Cite web |title=Avison Scott Profile – Cricket Player England {{!}} Stats, Records, Video |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/avison-scott-20620 |access-date=2024-03-12 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|language=en}} He was born in [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge) and died in [Marylebone](/source/Marylebone) aged 76 years and 335 days.[http://www.cricinfo.com/talk/content/player/20620.html www.Cricinfo] He later became an [Anglican](/source/Anglican) [priest](/source/priest).[http://www.stjamestw.co.uk/thehistoryofstjames.htm St James, Tunbridge Wells] ==Family== ===Notable relatives=== Scott was a descendant of [the commentator Thomas Scott](/source/Thomas_Scott_(commentator)); nephew of [Sir George Gilbert Scott](/source/George_Gilbert_Scott); first cousin of [George Gilbert Scott Jr.](/source/George_Gilbert_Scott_Jr.); uncle of [Elliot Dowell Tillard](/source/Elliot_Tillard); first cousin once removed of [Giles Gilbert Scott](/source/Giles_Gilbert_Scott); and father of [George Arbuthnot Scott](/source/George_Arbuthnot_Scott).{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} ===Own immediate relatives=== Scott was the son of [Canon](/source/Canon_(priest)) John Scott, [Vicar](/source/Vicar) of [Wisbech](/source/Wisbech), the brother of the architect [George Gilbert Scott](/source/George_Gilbert_Scott).'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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U202713, accessed 7 Nov 2016] In 1874 he married Dora (Dorothea Sarah), daughter of [The Rev.](/source/Reverend) Richard Tillard, [Rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of [Blakeney, Norfolk](/source/Blakeney%2C_Norfolk). As well as their middle child, the cricketer [George](/source/George_Arbuthnot_Scott), they had three older (John Wilfrid; Amy Florence; and Charles Tillard) and three younger children ([Arthur Avison](/source/Arthur_Scott_(cricketer%2C_born_1883)); Walter Leonard; Anna Dorothea). ==Education== Scott was educated at [Brighton College](/source/Brighton_College) and [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge).[John Venn](/source/John_Venn), [John Archibald Venn](/source/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](/source/Alumni_Cantabrigienses)'', Part 2 vol. 5 p. 441 ([Cambridge](/source/Cambridge), [CUP](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1953) ==Ecclesiastical career== After serving [curacies](/source/Curate) at [Swaffham](/source/Swaffham) and [Wimbledon](/source/Wimbledon%2C_London) he became the [incumbent](/source/Incumbent_(ecclesiastical)) at Christ Church, [Bootle](/source/Bootle) in 1879. In 1886, he was appointed [Vicar](/source/Vicar) of St James, [Tunbridge Wells](/source/Tunbridge_Wells). In 1895 he additionally took on the responsibility of [chaplain](/source/chaplain) to the Tonbridge Union Workhouse[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=051-p371g&cid=2-1&kw=Centre%20for%20Kentish%20Studies#2-1 National Archives] In 1906 [the Bishop of Rochester](/source/John_Reginald_Harmer) obtained an [Order in Council](/source/Order_in_Council) to create an [Archdeaconry of Tonbridge](/source/Archdeacon_of_Tonbridge) and nominated Scott to be the first incumbent.''Archdeacon Scott'' [The Times](/source/The_Times) (London, England), Friday, 19 Jun 1925; pg. 18; Issue 43992 ==References== {{reflist}} {{Trinity College, Cambridge}} {{Cambridge University Cricket Club}} {{Archdeacons of Tonbridge}} {{Portal bar|Christianity|Cricket}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Avison}} Category:1848 births Category:1925 deaths Category:People educated at Brighton College Category:Cricketers from the City of Westminster Category:People from Marylebone Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Category:19th-century English Anglican priests Category:20th-century English Anglican priests Category:Archdeacons of Tonbridge Category:English cricketers Category:Cambridge Town Club cricketers Category:Cambridge University cricketers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Avison Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avison_Scott) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avison_Scott?action=history)). 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