Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes (13 October 1896 - 19 January 1976) was an English businessman and writer.

Life

Scott-Stokes was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he came to know the economist Roy Harrod.[1] In 1921 he married Mary Elizabeth Morland, daughter of John Morland, the Quaker founder of Morlands of Glastonbury, a sheepskin garments and footwear manufacturer. He moved to Glastonbury and worked for his father-in-law's business,[1] becoming managing director.[2] In 1928 he collaborated with J. Colby Morland on 'The Security of the Worker', a paper delivered to the conference of Quaker Employers.[3]

Scott-Stokes contested Weston-super-Mare as a Liberal candidate in the 1934 by-election, and the 1935 general election.

Scott-Stokes was mayor of Glastonbury six times, the founder president of Glastonbury Conservation Society and the first Freeman of Glastonbury.[2] In 1952 he turned down the offer of an OBE.[4] He died on 19 January 1976.[5]

Works

  • Perseus; or, Of dragons, London: Kegan Paul, 1924. To-day and To-morrow series.
  • (tr.) Glastonbury Abbey before the conquest by William of Malmesbury. Translated from the Latin De antiquitate Glastoniensis ecclesie [On the antiquity of the Church of Glastonbury]. Glastonbury: Central Somerset Gazette, 1932
  • (tr.) Glastonbury Abbey during the crusades by Adam of Domerham. Translated from the Latin. London: Folk Press Ltd., 1934. The Somerset folk series, no. 28.

References

  1. 1 2 Daniele Besomi, Scott-Stokes, Henry Folliott, The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod
  2. 1 2 John Brunsdon, A personal history of Glastonbury over the last 55 years Archived 2013-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ 'The Security of the Worker. What Some Employers Think', The Manchester Guardian, 16 April 1928.
  4. ↑ People who snubbed honours from the Queen: in full, The Telegraph, 25 January 2012.
  5. ↑ 'Deaths', The Times, 21 January 1976, p.32
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