The Ven. Melville Horne Scott (1827–1898) was Archdeacon of Stafford from 1888 until his death.Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries . Manchester Times (Manchester, England), Friday, 10 June 1898; Issue 2130
Biography Scott came from an eminent family: his grandfather was the influential preacher and author Thomas Scott;Rumford, Gordon Bruce (1992). Thomas Scott's 'The Force of Truth': A diplomatic edition from the first and final editions with introduction and notes (M.A. thesis) Wilfrid Laurier University and his brother George Gilbert Scott an English Gothic Revival architect Two of his nephews George Gilbert Scott, Jr. and John Oldrid Scott, and his grandson Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects. Another nephew was the botanist Dukinfield Henry Scott. His own father was Reverend The Rev. Thomas Scott, Rector of Wappenham,Arthur Pollard, ‘Scott, Thomas (1747–1821)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 May 2016 he
Scott was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and ordained in 1851.The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 He held incumbencies at Ockbrook (1852 to 1872), Litchurch (1872 to 1878; and Lichfield (1878 to 1894).‘SCOTT, Ven. Melville Horne’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 May 2016 He was appointed a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral in 1878'Local News' "The Derby Mercury" (Derby, England), Wednesday, 10 April 1878; Issue 8520 and a Canon Residentiary in 1894.PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS . The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (Bristol, England), Saturday, 27 October 1894; Issue 14497.
He died on 3 June 1898.
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