John Scott (banker)

John Scott (1757–1832) was an English banker and evangelical Christian. He held pacifist views, and was the first Treasurer and a founding member of the Peace Society.

Life

He was the son of William Scott (died 1775) and his wife Elizabeth Watts.[1] At age 12 he was apprenticed to a City of London jeweller.[2] He went to work for a private bank. When Henry Thornton joined it during the 1780s, the name was Down, Thornton & Free, or just Down & Co. In 1815 both Thornton and Richard Down, an original partner, died, and a new partnership was formed that involved Scott. It traded as Pole, Thornton, Free, Down & Scott, with Henry Sykes Thornton as one of the incoming partners.[3][4]

Initially a Calvinist of the Church of England, Scott became a Calvinistic Methodist. He attended the Tabernacle Chapel, City Road, Moorfields, He later joined a Congregationalist chapel in Stoke Newington. In 1816 he was one of the founding committee of the Peace Society.[5] In a tract of 1817, his address is given as Islington.[6]

The bank failed in the Panic of 1825. Scott suffered a large personal loss.[4][2]

A funeral sermon for Scott was preached at Stoke Newington by the Congregationalist minister John Jefferson (1795–1882).[7][8] His place as the Peace Society's Treasurer was taken by Samuel Gurney (1786–1856).[9]

Works

War inconsistent with the doctrine and example of Jesus Christ: in a letter to a friend This work by Scott has been called a "pioneering pacifist text".[10] It was originally published nearly pseudonymously in 1796, as "I. Scott". At that time it was noticed by the Analytical Review and Critical Review.[11][12] It is now recognised as the first London pacifist pamphlet with origins other than the Society of Friends.[13] It was adopted as a tract, twenty years later, by the Peace Society, with a third edition in 1818.[14][15]

Family

Scott married, firstly, Mary Whinnell, daughter of Benjamin Whinnell of Wimborne; and secondly Anne Ley. Among the children of the first marriage was Benjamin Whinnell Scott (1782–1841), a Clerk of the Chamber of the City of London, who was the father of Benjamin Scott (1812-1892) who himself became Chamberlain, James Renat Scott (1819-1883) Clerk and Registrar of the Coal Market and Syms Scott (1822-1863).[1]

Notes

Scott, James Renat (1876). "Memorials of the family of Scott, of Scot's-hall, in the county of Kent. With an appendix of illustrative documents". Internet Archive. London: J. R. Scott. p. 243. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
The Scott Genealogical Quarterly Volume8 July 1994 Number 2. Heritage Books. p. 49.
Younge, Edward; Collyer, John (1836). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer in Equity [1834-1842]. S. Sweet. p. 267. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
"Pole, Thornton, Free, Down & Scott, RBS Heritage Hub". Retrieved 15 February 2018.
Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. pp. 250 and 172. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
Erasmus, Desiderius (1817). Extracts from the writings of Erasmus, on the subject of war. p. 2. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730–1854. Clarendon Press. p. 283. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
Jefferson, John (1832). The Aged Christian, Ripe for Glory: A Sermon Preached in the Independent Meeting House, Stoke Newington, on Lord's Day, April 29, 1832, Occasioned by the Death of Mr. John Scott. author. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730–1854. Clarendon Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
Christie, Thomas (1796). The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan. p. 538. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
Smollett, Tobias George (1796). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 471. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
The Herald of Peace. Hamilton, Adams, & Company. 1831. p. 358.
Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

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[Scott-1] Scott, James Renat (1876). "Memorials of the family of Scott, of Scot's-hall, in the county of Kent. With an appendix of illustrative documents". Internet Archive. London: J. R. Scott. p. 243. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[SGC-2] The Scott Genealogical Quarterly Volume8 July 1994 Number 2. Heritage Books. p. 49.

[3] Younge, Edward; Collyer, John (1836). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer in Equity [1834-1842]. S. Sweet. p. 267. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[RBS-4] "Pole, Thornton, Free, Down & Scott, RBS Heritage Hub". Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[5] Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. pp. 250 and 172. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[Erasmus1817-6] Erasmus, Desiderius (1817). Extracts from the writings of Erasmus, on the subject of war. p. 2. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[7] Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730–1854. Clarendon Press. p. 283. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

[8] Jefferson, John (1832). The Aged Christian, Ripe for Glory: A Sermon Preached in the Independent Meeting House, Stoke Newington, on Lord's Day, April 29, 1832, Occasioned by the Death of Mr. John Scott. author. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

[9] Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730–1854. Clarendon Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

[10] Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[11] Christie, Thomas (1796). The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan. p. 538. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[12] Smollett, Tobias George (1796). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 471. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[13] Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[14] The Herald of Peace. Hamilton, Adams, & Company. 1831. p. 358.

[Ceadel1996-15] Ceadel, Martin (1996). The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Clarendon Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780198226741. Retrieved 15 February 2018.