Joseph Nicol Scott
Joseph Nicol Scott M.D. (1703?–1769) was an English physician, dissenting minister and writer.[1]
Life
[edit]He was the eldest son of Thomas Scott, an Independent minister at Hitchin and then Norwich, the half-brother of Daniel Scott, and was born about 1703 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire; Thomas Scott was his brother, and Elizabeth Scott his sister.[2] He acted as his father's assistant at the Old Meeting in Norwich from about 1725, but his religious views became Arian, and he was dismissed in 1737 or 1738.[3]
Scott was then established by his Norwich friends in a Sunday lectureship at the French church, St Mary the Less. At first he drew good audiences, including members of the Church of England, but his lectures were discontinued by 1743.[3]
Scott studied medicine at Edinburgh, and graduated M.D. in 1744.[4] For some years he practised in Norwich. John Reynolds, an admirer, left him an estate at Felsted in Essex.
He died at Felsted on 23 December 1769. A monument to his memory was in the Old Meeting, Norwich. The Gracious Warning, a monody on his death, by George Wright, was published in 1774.[1]
Works
[edit]Scott published:[3]
- Sermons … in defence of all Religion … Natural or Revealed, 1743, 2 vols. One is on "the Mahometan Revelation considered", and others affirm annihilationism, anticipating the position of Samuel Bourn (1714–1796).
- An Essay towards a Translation of Homer's Works in Blank Verse, with Notes, 1755, a version of thirteen passages from the Iliad.
He also revised the etymologies from classic and oriental languages for an issue (1755, folio) of the English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey.[5]
Family
[edit]Scott's widow, Martha Bell, died at Aylsham, Norfolk, in 1799, aged 87.[1]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 3 Copson, S. L. "Scott, Joseph Nicol". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24901. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- 1 2 3 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ↑ "Joseph Nicoll Scott". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- ↑ Lucas, Peter J. (11 June 2026). "Semi-Saxon and the Presentation of Early English in Print". Anglia, vol. 144, no. 2, pp. 242-273. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Scott, Joseph Nicoll". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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