SCOTT, HENRY (1859-1946)

SCOTT, HENRY, Methodist minister, Derby circuit, 1920-24; b. Durham Co., England, 1859; m. 1st, 1888, Ellen Bonnell, of Petites, Nfld, and 2nd, 1938, Mrs Lila Thomas, of Burgessville, Ont.; d. Windsor, Ont., Oct 1946.

Henry Scott became a student preacher at age seventeen, and after graduating from Richmond College in England, went to Newfoundland and entered the Methodist ministry on trial in 1885. Ordained in 1888, he served in many parts of Newfoundland before being assigned to Gaspé and Cap-aux-Os, Que., in 1917. He came to the Derby circuit from there in 1920 and assumed pastoral responsibility for the churches at Millerton, Williamstown and English Settlement. He left in 1924 and was the minister at Oak Bay in Charlotte County at the time of church union.

After his retirement as a United Church minister in 1928, Scott preached for some years on a supply basis in Ontario. He was survived in 1946 by three sons and two daughters, as well as his second wife.