Charles Scott (bishop)

Charles Perry Scott (7 June 1847, in Hull – 13 February 1927, in Shanghai) was an Anglican missionary bishop.^[1]

Scott was born into an ecclesiastical family: his father was the Rev. John Scott, sometime Vicar of St Mary's Church, Hull.^[2][3] He was named for his godfather, Charles Perry (Bishop of Melbourne)^[1] and educated at Charterhouse and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1870.^[4][5] Ordained in 1871,^[6] he was a Curate at St Peter, Eaton Square^[7] before going to China as a missionary.^[8] In 1880 he was appointed bishop in North China, a post he held until 1913.^[9] His diocese included five Chinese provinces.^[10] In 1889 he married Frances Emily Burrows, daughter of the Oxford historian Montagu Burrows^[4] and grand-daughter of General Montagu Burrows.^[11]

Scott died on 13 February 1927.^[12]