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John Scott was the son of a successful London draper who later retired to Amwell House in the Hertfordshire village of Great Amwell and worked from there as a maltster. The family were Quakers and John's elder brother Samuel (1719–88) eventually settled in Hertford as a Quaker minister.
John Scott of Amwell, (1730–83), author of several poems and tracts, who built a grotto containing several apartments, which still exists; John Hoole, (1727–1803), translator of Tasso and biographer of John Scott of Amwell; Rev Robert Scott Mylne FRSE FSSA FSA, (1854-1920), antiquarian, vicar of Amwell, where he is buried in the Mylne vault.
John Scott, the Quaker poet and writer, moved to Great Amwell in 1740. He gave Amwell its name (after Emma's Well, which is nearby and now dry; the well has part of John Scott's poem "Emma" inscribed near it.) [154] [Notes 13] Nobel prizewinning playwright George Bernard Shaw lived in Hertfordshire until his death in 1950.
The grotto was formerly in the garden of Amwell House. Its construction may have taken several years and was completed by John Scott, an 18th-century Quaker poet who inherited Amwell House from his father in 1768. Scott also had other romantic features built in his garden, including an octagonal gazebo on the hillside above. Scott kept a book ...
Richard Warren married Elizabeth Walker, at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, on 14 April 1610. Elizabeth Walker was the daughter of Augustine Walker of Great Amwell. She was baptised at Baldock in September 1583. This information came to light with the discovery of Augustine Walker's will dated 19 April 1613, in which he named his daughter ...
John Scott of Amwell (1730–1783), Quaker poet and friend of Samuel Johnson; John A. Scott (born 1948), Australian poet and novelist, now using the name John Scott; John Scott (composer) (born 1930), British film composer, conductor, musician, classical, jazz; John Scott (organist) (1956–2015), English-born organist of St. Thomas's Church ...
John Goodman’s dramatic weight loss transformation raised questions about how he managed to do so. The onscreen star said he was his heaviest in 2011, weighing 400 lbs, but he managed to shed ...
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