• Name: Scott, William
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date:
• Death Date:

Elder brother of Lady Oxford (née Jane Scott, 1772-1824, married Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford, in 1794), mother of one of Sir Francis Burdett's illegitimate children, also brother of Hobbes Scott. Burdett took out a law suit against William Scott in 1811 for the recovery of a loan of £5,000. There are a number of meetings at Horne Tooke's where the identification seems clear. However, there are two W Scott entries in 1805 when Godwin calls on W Scott, on both occasions finding him absent. The lack of circumstantial support makes these identifications tentative.

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• Name: Scott, Thomas Hobbes
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 17  April  1783
• Death Date: 1  January  1860

Younger brother of Lady Oxford (née Jane Scott, 1772-1824, married Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford, in 1794), mother of one of Sir Francis Burdett's illegitimate children, brother of William Scott, against whom Burdett took out a law suit in 1811 for the recovery of a loan of £5,000.

Hobbes Scott was a protege of Tooke's. He eventually became Archdeacon of New South Wales. The entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography for Thomas Hobbes Scott gives his date of birth as 1783 and suggests that 'when his father died in 1794, T. H. Scott received no inheritance, but he went to France, became a vice-consul at Bordeaux and went bankrupt as a wine merchant. ' It seems improbable that he went to France at the age of 11, unless it was with his parents. On the other hand, he had four brothers and it is possible that there is some confusion with the activities of these.

If he was born in 1783 then he is appearing at Horne Tooke's dinner table from the age of thirteen or fourteen (which is possible). The first two entries are to 'Scotts' and we are inferring his presence. His first clear identification is on2 July 1797.

• Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/
• J. Ann Hone, For the Cause of Truth, p. 141.

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