Thomas Scott (Bishop of North China)

The Right Reverend Thomas Arnold Scott was an Anglican missionary bishop in China during the first half of the twentieth century.

Scott was born on 9 June 1879,[1] and educated at Leeds Grammar School, Felsted School and Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] He was ordained deacon in 1902 and priest in 1903. After a curacy at St Paul, Halifax[3] he was SPG missionary in China from 1908 to 1950. In 1913 he became the headmaster of the Church of England school in Peking and then in 1921 Bishop of Shantung.[4] In 1940 he was translated to North China, retiring in 1950. He died on 29 March 1956.[5]

References

“Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
"Scott, Thomas Arnold (SCT897TA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
The Times, Monday, Apr 18, 1921; pg. 7; Issue 42697; col C New Bishop of Shantung
Dr. T. A. Scott Former Bishop Of North China The Times Wednesday, Apr 04, 1956; pg. 11; Issue 53496; col G

Anglican Missionary Bishops in China, 1849–1949
Shensi	Shen Zigao Newton Liu
Chekiang	William Russell George Moule Herbert Molony John Curtis Kimber Den
North China	Charles Scott Frank Norris Thomas Scott
Western Szechwan	John Holden Ch’eng-Tsi Song
Eastern Szechwan	William Cassels Howard Mowll John Holden Frank Houghton Kenneth Bevan
Shantung	Geoffrey Iliff Thomas Scott John Wellington
Fukien	Horace Price John Hind Christopher Sargent Michael Chang
Honan	William White Lindel Tsen
Kwangsi and Hunan	William Banister John Holden Percy Stevens

Protestant missions to China
Background	Protestantism in China Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward William Jones Boone John Birch Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Hedley Bunton Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John Leighton Stuart Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	OMF International/China Inland Mission LMS ABCFM CMS MEM PECM US Presbyterian Mission National Christian Council (more agencies)
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic
Publications	Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

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