Avison Scott

Reverend Avison Terry Scott (18 July 1848 – 18 June 1925) was an English first-class cricketer active from 1867 to 1871, and who played for Cambridge Town Club (aka Cambridgeshire) and Cambridge University.

[1] He was born in Cambridge and died in Marylebone aged 76y and 335 days.

Richard Tillard, Rector of Blakeney, Norfolk: as well as their middle child, the cricketer George they had three older (John Wilfrid; Amy Florence; and Charles Tillard) and three younger children (Arthur Avison; Walter Leonard; Anna Dorothea).

[5] After serving curacies at Swaffham and Wimbledon he became the incumbent at Christ Church, Bootle in 1879.

In 1895 he additionally took on the responsibility of chaplain to the Tonbridge Union Workhouse[6] In 1906 the Bishop of Rochester obtained an Order in Council to create an Archdeaconry of Tonbridge and nominated Scott to be the first incumbent.