Robert Scott (c. 1569 – 1620) was an English churchman and academic, Master of
Clare College, Cambridge and
Dean of Rochester.
Life
He was baptized in 1569 at
Barnston, Essex
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The local churches are St Andrews and the Mission Evangelical ...
, and matriculated as
sizar at
Pembroke College, Cambridge
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in 1588. He graduated B.A. in 1592, and M.A. from Clare College in 1595.
He reportedly had been a Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge. He was sub-almoner to King James at the time of his election in 1612 as Master of Clare.
[John Reynolds Wardale, ''Clare College'' (1899), p. 98.] He proceeded D.D. in 1613.
In 1615 he was appointed Dean of Rochester, and he served as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge for 1619-20 . He died in London, on 21 December 1620 and was buried at Barnston.
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1569 births
1620 deaths
16th-century English clergy
17th-century English clergy
Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
Deans of Rochester
Masters of Clare College, Cambridge
People from Uttlesford (district)
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge