James Scott (political writer)

He was educated at Bradford Grammar School, St. Catharine Hall and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.

He was elected fellow of Trinity College in 1758, and was a frequent and admired preacher at St. Mary's between 1760 and 1764.

In 1771, through Lord Sandwich's interest, he was presented to the rectory of Simonburn, Northumberland, where he spent much time and money in trying to get in his tithes.

[1] Scott was three times successful in the competition for the Seatonian prize, with poems Heaven, Purity of Heart: a Moral Epistle, and An Hymn to Repentance (Cambridge, 1760–3).

He was also author of:[1] By his wife Anne, daughter of Henry Scott, who survived him, he left no issue.