In October 1827 he was entered at Merchant Taylors' School,[1] and on 14 June 1831 he matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford, as Michel exhibitioner.
[2] Ordained deacon in 1836 and priest in 1837, he held three curacies, the last of which was under William Dodsworth at Christ Church, Albany Street, London.
In 1844, when it became a quarterly, James Bowling Mozley for a short time succeeded Garden, but during a large part of the life of the paper, which ended in 1868, Scott was sole editor.
In 1846 he joined Edward Pusey and his associates in their efforts to prevent the ordination at St Paul's Cathedral of Samuel Gobat, the Lutheran bishop-elect of Jerusalem.
He was one of the prime movers in the formation in 1848 of the London Union on Church Matters, and from 1859 onwards was chairman of the committee of the Ecclesiological Society.
In 1841 he edited, with additions and illustrations, Roger Laurence's Lay Baptism invalid; and in 1847, for the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology, the works of William Laud in seven volumes.