Ignatius Scoles SJ (1 December 1834 – 15 July 1896) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, architect and writer.
[1] His father did a lot of work for the Society of Jesus and named his eldest son after Ignatius of Loyola the founder of the Jesuits.
[1] His brother Alexander Joseph Cory Scoles followed him in becoming a priest, but not a Jesuit, instead he joined the Diocese of Clifton, later becoming a canon.
[1] Whilst he was there, he designed Georgetown City Hall[3] and helped with the construction of Brickdam Cathedral.
He recorded his time in Guyana by writing Sketches of African and Indian Life in British Guiana (Kessinger, 1885).