Father stanley brother biography of alberta

(7 April 1888-27 Nov. 1988) clergyman. Born at Lancaster, GC. Parents: William James Scott and his wife Janet Ann McDermid, who was the sister of D. A. and Finlay McDermid. William James Scott, a carriagemaker at Lancaster 1881-1906 and the father of the subject of the present entry, was the brother of A.H., Christina and Margaret Scott of this dictionary; he moved to Edmonton in 1906. Stanley Scott attended Williamstown High School, taught school in GC for three years before going to university, and in 1911, while a student at Queen’s University, was chosen Rhodes Scholar for Alberta or the western provinces. After studying theology at Oxford University for three years, Scott returned to Queen’s for his B.A., 1915. Eventually, he also had the degrees B.D., Chicago, and Ph.D., Hartford, with an honorary D.D. from the University of Alberta in 1984. He was a minister, first in the Presbyterian Church, and afterwards in the United Church. Besides serving pastorates in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ottawa, he was professor of philosophy and religion in Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, from 1924 to 1932. In his later years he was minister emeritus, Highland United Church, Edmonton. When in 1983 he attended a reunion of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, he was the oldest among the 800 at the reunion, and was the oldest living Rhodes Scholar in Canada and the 4th oldest in the world. He wrote Making God Vital (Macmillan, 1923). He died in Edmonton having reached the age of 100. He was married three times, to (1) Una Leolin Works (four children), (2) his first cousin Katherine Hamilton Scott, who had a distinguished career as a nurse in Canada and in Britain in World War II, (3) Gabriele Adele Seliger. Stanley Scott’s brother Charles McDermid Scott (1886-1971) was a medical missionary in India and afterwards had a medical practice at Peterborough, Ontario.

     For other Rhodes Scholars of the GC connection, see notes in the biogs. of C. W. Gordon, F. W. MacCallum, and Mgr Donald Ranald Macdonald.

QAR Jan.-Feb. 1984, Jan.-Feb. 1985, Sept.-Oct. 1987, Jan.-Feb. 1988 (revisits Queen’s), July-Aug. 1988, July-Aug. 1990 p. 39, & (obituary with portrait) (March-April 1989) * Hartley 71-73, 81-87 (portrait) * Campbell (1986), 288-306 (portrait) * brief obituary notice, United Church Observer, Jan. 1989 (he served in 11 pastorates in Alberta and Saskatchewan) * chosen Rhodes Scholar, Glengarry News 10 Feb. 1911 * Katherine Hamilton Scott: marriage, and her obituary, both undated clipping, in WSC 107, 64; also GN 9 Jan. 1942 on her career; & Hartley as cited