Gordon Paul Scruton (born March 8, 1947) is a former Bishop of Western Massachusetts from 1996 to 2012.
[1] According to his official biography he received a master's degree in English, magna cum laude, from Barrington College, then studied at the Boston University School of Theology, receiving a master's degree in theology in 1971.
[1] Scruton was elected the eighth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts on June 29, 1996.
[2] Likewise, Scruton was a co-consecrator of George Edward Councell as eleventh bishop of New Jersey.
[9] In 2009, he also served on a committee to assist the Diocese of Southern Virginia in their internal conflicts.