William Ernest Newnham Scott (31 May 1903 — 6 August 1989) was an English first-class cricketer.
He was invited to trial for Hampshire in 1925, though a hand injury that season prevented him from playing.
[4] At the end of that season, Scott was offered a professional contract by Hampshire.
He decided against accepting the contract offer, preferring the security afforded to him through his employment with the Midland Bank at Shanklin.
His obituary in Wisden asserted that at the time of his death he was the only man born on the island to play first-class cricket;[1] however, this assertion is incorrect as Percy Bird, Herbert Griffiths, Henry Jolliffe, Howard Phillips, Hamilton Smith, Frederick Trumble, Walter Wheeler, and Sir Matthew Wood were all born on the island and played first-class cricket before Scott.