1 Ian Roderick Scutt, born on 23 October 1916, Stockport First, Cheshire, died on 24 January 2003, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (age at death: 86 years old). Parents: 2 and 3. Married about February 1941, Dronfield, Derbyshire, to Esme Isabelle Beddingfield, born on 14 April 1914, Millhouses, South Yorkshire, died on 9 January 2004, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (age at death: 89 years old). [Note 1].
2 Harry Allison Scutt, born in August 1880, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, died on 25 March 1964, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (age at death: 83 years old). Parents: 4 and 5. [Note 2].
... married on 20 December 1906, Liberton, Midlothian, SCOTLAND, to...
3 Isabel Kidd Couper, born about 1882, Stockport, Cheshire, died on 1 August 1957, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (age at death: possibly 75 years old). Parents: 6 and 7. [Note 3].
... (witnesses: William Duke Scutt ca 1882-1949, Margaret A. Couper †), with:
4 James Duke Scutt, born about December 1853, Liverpool, Lancashire, baptized on 26 May 1854, Liverpool, Lancashire - St. Mathias, died on 4 March 1924, Flaxton, Yorkshire (age at death: possibly 70 years old). Married (2) about February 1921, Wakefield, Yorkshire, to Isabella Paley, born about July 1850, Bradford, WR Yorkshire, died on 2 May 1930, Halifax, WR Yorkshire, buried, St Thomas Churchyard, Charlestown (age at death: possibly 79 years old), daughter of Benjamin Paley 1809-1871 and ------ ------ †. [Note 4].
... married about February 1880, Wakefield, Yorkshire, to...
5 Emma Allison, born about November 1853, Warsop, Nottinghamshire, died on 22 April 1920, Sandal Magna, West Yorkshire, buried, Sandal Magna - St Helen (age at death: possibly 66 years old). [Note 5].
... with:
6 James Lamb Couper, died, (1906) laundry manager.
... married to...
7 Jane Edwards, died.
... with:
| [I R S b:1916 Oct 23 - solicitor, and was in the dentistry branch of the army during the war.] [Lincolnshire Echo, Friday 05 May 1950. Scutt, Case at Lincoln. The appeal by Mr. Ian Roderick Scutt, Town Clerk of Jarrow and former Deputy Town Clerk of Lincoin, against the decision of the Lincoln City magistrates that he had deserted his wife, Mrs. Esme Isabelle Scutt, of The Mounts, Woodhouse, Sheffield, was again mentioned in the Divorce Divisional Court today. The Court yesterday allowed the appeal, and directed that the case should be re-heard. Mr. Justice Hodson asked if Mr. Scutt would give an undertaking to continue, meanwhile, pay the 10s. a week fixed by the magistrates as maintenance for Mrs. Scutt and the children.] [Lincolnshire Echo, Tuesday 08 August 1950. Scutt, Order Stays that not so very long ago I was extremely well-known in this town and held a considerably important position. "That why it seemed extraordinary that the case was started here .... The normal thing would have been to issue that summons at Sheffield.” Asked by the chairman if these details were not irrelevant, Scutt replied that he wanted to get the reasons behind his application made clear. Scutt said that he had had to pay the costs of the previous hearing, the costs of the divisional court, the costs of the second hearing, the costs of an application to the divisional court and the possibility of the costs of today. Total costs were about £200 and then he had to pay his wife maintenance of £7. 10s a week, “To be quite obvious, I was getting into a financial jam." he added. “I wrote to the Magistrates' Clerk explaining the situation that was arising, and I pointed out that my remarks concerning my finances were for his own information and were not for transmission to the complainant or her solicitors," Scutt continued.] [Nottingham Evening Post, Tuesday 08 August 1950. A Town Clerk’s Finances. Lincoln Bench and Wife's Support. Ian Roderick Scutt, Town Clerk of Jarrow, and former deputy Town Clerk of Lincoln, made an unsuccessful application to the Lincoln magistrates court to-day to vary a maintenance order made against him for the payment to his wife of £3 a week for herself, and £1.10s. a week for each of his three children. Applicant agreed that his arrears, under the order amounted to £44 16d., but could not suggest how he could meet this amount when he answered a summons in connection with the arrears. The summons was adjourned providing he paid a week off the arrears. The application for the variation was made on the grounds that his financial circumstances did not permit him to pay these amounts and that his income was not what was stated by his wife, Mrs. Esle Isabelle Scutt, of the Mount Woodhouse. Sheffield, when the order was made. Salary £1.160. In evidence, Scutt said his salary was £1,160 a year, from which six per cent, or about 25s a week had to deducted for superannuation purposes. His house cost £2 10s. a week for rent, rates, coal, gas and electricity; went towards food, and 30s. a week towards the running costs of his car. Life insurance and subscriptions professional societies worked out at 1Os. a week and clothing at about the same amount. I think the only luxury I indulge in is cigarettes," he said. Cross-examined by Mr. A. W. Halgate Hills, for Mrs. Scutt, Mr. Scutt agreed that at the end of his first year's service was entitled to an increment of £1OO. His Liabilities. Applicant said he had had a summons served on him that morning mentioning a sum of £56 and his bank balance was about £7O. He already had liabilities for costs arising from this matter which in round sums were £2OO. The chairman said the magistrates had considered all the points put before them but they could not take into account the amount of costs, because that would be tantamount in asking the wife to pay part of the costs. We cannot, after making a deduction of £1 on the last occasion, vary the order any further,” he said.] [Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 27 June 1951. Town Clerk resigns: Star Chamber accusation from our Jarrow Correspondent Town Council last night accepted the resignation of the Town Clerk, (Mr. I. R. Scutt), which was tendered in advance of a Committee recommendation to dispense with his services. The Council decided to give him three months salary In lieu of notice. A letter from the Town Clerk stated that it was both customary and morally necessary to give an explanation for the termination of such contract, but this would appear to be viewed with which the majority of the members of Jarrow Council did not agree. Giving his reasons for terminating his contract, Mr. Scutt stated that the chairman of the Finance Committee told him that the Socialist Group had decided to give him three months notice but that he was to given an opportunity of resigning.] |
| [After Banns according to the forums of the Church of Scotland. Harry Allison Scutt (26) school master, bachelor of 70 Oliver Street, Stockport. Parents - James Duke Scutt, painter and decorator & Emma Scutt nee Allison. Isabella Kidd Couper, spinster of 19 West Saville Terrace, Edinburgh. Parents - James Lamb Couper, laundry manager & Jane Couper nee Edwards. Witnesses:Willie Duke Scutt & Margaret A Couper. James Fraser:Registrar & Signed:Robert Burnett, Minister of Liberton.] [H J S 83yr.] |
| [After Banns according to the forums of the Church of Scotland. Harry Allison Scutt (26) school master, bachelor of 70 Oliver Street, Stockport. Parents - James Duke Scutt, painter and decorator & Emma Scutt nee Allison. Isabella Kidd Couper, spinster of 19 West Saville Terrace, Edinburgh. Parents - James Lamb Couper, laundry manager & Jane Couper nee Edwards. Witnesses:Willie Duke Scutt & Margaret A Couper. James Fraser:Registrar & Signed:Robert Burnett, Minister of Liberton.] [I K S 75yr.] |
| J D S b:121 Great Howard Street, Liverpool, Lancashire - Baptized by: R Vinct Sheldon. BMD states Jane Duke Scutt. J D S - 75yr., lived at 408 Brincliffe Edge Road, Sheffield - d:Clifton, Yorkshire. To Harry Allison Scutt (schoolmaster). |
| E S 66yr. |
| [Yorkshire Evening Post, West Yorkshire, Monday 10 October 1938. MR. W D Scutt. Wakefield - Man's Appointment to Important Post. Mr. W D Scutt, a native of Wakefield, who is to succeed Mr. Baldwin, was an engineer in Leeds until 1924 when he was transferred to the office of the Engineer-in-Chief, London. He returned to Leeds in 1930 as engineer in charge of the West Yorkshire Engineering Section. January 1935, he was appointed superintending engineer the North-Eastern district, and December the same year was appointed telephone manager of the Bradford area, which was the first area in the country put on the new area basis. Mr. Scutt's new appointment gives him responsibility for the Post Office engineering activities for the North-Eastern counties, from Berwick-on-Tweed to the south of Lincoln. He is president of the Bradford Telephone Area Sports and Serial Club, which won the North-Eastern Regional Shield last year — a trophy for the best sporting performance of postal staffs in the North-Eastern region, which was being competed for for the first time.] [W D S - 65yr.] |
| [Cambridge Independent Press, Friday 20 June 1913. Fitzwilliam Hall. Scholarships. The George Charles Winter Warr Scholarship for Classical Research is awarded to Cecil Allison Scutt, B.A., Clare.] [The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848-1956) Wednesday 20 June 1928 p15 Article - Social Events. The colours of Newman College Club handsome combination of red blue and black formed the basis of the decorative scheme which transformed the St Kilda Town Hall into a ballroom for the annual at home given hot evening by the students of Newman College. As the special guests arrived .... Professor and Mrs Scutt .... Mrs. Scutt's frock of shot deep cyclamen mauve taffetas was made with a full skirt.] [Outward bound passenger lists for London in December 1928 as follows, Professor Cecil Scutt age 39, Mrs. Lillian Scutt home duties age 36, Master Robert Scutt age 8, Master Phillip Scutt age 3.] [The Register News-Pictorial - Adelaide, SA :Monday 27 January 1930 p7. Prof. C. A. Scutt, of Melbourne University, and Mrs. Scutt, are returning from a holiday trip to Europe by the Runic, which reached Outer Harbour on Saturday.] [Argus - Melbourne Wednesday 18 May 1938. Commenting on a request by the Universities' Bureau of the British Empire for assistance for the British schools at Rome and Athens, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Classics at the University of Melbourne (Professor C. A. Scutt), who spent some time at the Athens school as a research scholar after he left Cambridge, said yesterday that both schools had been doing very valuable work over a period of about 50 years. Money for excavation work, he said, was the principal need of the Athens school. A small grant from each of the universities of the Empire each year would do a great deal to assist the work.] [C A S - 72yr.] [He was a classical scholar, and was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated (B.A., 1911; M.A., 1915) with first-class honours in the classical tripos and second-class in the medieval and modern languages tripos. With the aid of a Prendergast studentship (1912, 1914) and a Warr research scholarship in 1913, he engaged in excavation and philological research in Southern Italy and Greece and published 'The Tsakonian dialect' in the Annual of the British School at Athens (volumes 19-20, 1912-13, 1913-14). During World War I, when the allied forces started operations in the Balkans, Scutt, a fluent speaker of modern Greek, commanded a mixed band of Macedonian irregulars for outpost and intelligence work. Returning to England he became a teacher at Repton School, Derbyshire, in 1918 at Mirfield, Yorkshire, married Lilian Buckley with Congregational forms. Appointed to the chair of classical philology at the University of Melbourne in October 1919, Scutt did not maintain the prominent reputation of his department established by his brilliant predecessor T. G. Tucker. But his skill and dedication as a teacher were appreciated; he practised traditional methods of teaching, relying less on formal lectures than on individual tuition. He taught a final-year course in comparative philology and, as local research opportunities were limited, assisted his best graduates to obtain scholarships to Cambridge and Oxford. Scutt, who had a ruddy, cheerful face and broad Yorkshire accent, was an active member of the academic community. He was dean of the faculty of arts in 1925-28 and 1938, and a member of the board of management of the university press, of the general library committee and the faculty of education. From 1920 to 1953 he served almost continuously as a member of the schools board. Although little involved in the wider community, he was patron of the Classical Association of Victoria in 1920-25. A socialist in his youth, a staunch conservative in later life, raised as a Nonconformist but later agnostic, Scutt believed in 'the culture of ancient Athens and the best of English traditions, but little else'. Retiring in 1955, he returned to Cambridge in 1961 and died there on 26 March. His wife and two sons survived him. Apart from his academic reputation, contemporaries remembered him with affection for his integrity, geniality and common sense, for his 'instinct for the just cause' and 'for the light of interest in his eyes at the mere mention of cricket' ~ Diane Langmore, "Scutt, Cecil Allison (1889-1961)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp.558-559.] [C A S - 72yr., residence:Toorak, Australia, cremated: 30 Mar 1961 Cambridge Crematorium (Cambridge).] |