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Authorised form of nameScott; John (1751 - 1838); 1st Earl of Eldon and Viscount Encombe
Dates1751 - 1838
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLove Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Date of birth04 June 1751
Place of deathHamilton Place, London
Date of death13 January 1838
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kingston Chapel graveyard, near Encombe, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle; the school of Charles Hutton (FRS 1774); University College Oxford. BA (1770); MA (1773); DCL (1801
Career:
Fellow of University College, Oxford; MP for Weobley (1782-99); Solicitor General (1788-1793); Attorney General (1793-1799); Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1799); Lord Chancellor (1801-1806, 1807-1827)
Honours:
Kt 1788; Baron Eldon 1799; Viscount Encombe and Earl of Eldon 1821
Memberships:
FSA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/02/1793
RelationshipsYounger brother of William Scott, Baron Stowell (FRS 1793)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1838 No 35 p 94
References:
J M Edmonds, 'The Founding of the Oxford Readership in Geology, 1818' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 33-51
CodeNA6409
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1792/14Scott, John, 1st Earl of Eldon and Viscount Encombe: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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