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John Scott (9 January 1731 [1] – 12 December 1783), known as Scott of Amwell, was an English landscape gardener and writer on social matters. He was also the first notable Quaker poet, although in modern times he is remembered for only one anti-militarist poem.
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 ...
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 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.
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Ware is home to Scott's Grotto, [28] built for John Scott, an 18th-century poet who owned Amwell House from 1768. The grotto, the largest in the UK, is a series of chambers extending over 65 ft into the chalk hillside.
A Victorian-era romanticised depiction of a member of the clan by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845. Clan Maclachlan, also known as Clan Lachlan, [2] Clann Lachainn (Argyll), [1] and Clann Lachlainn, [1] is a Highland Scottish clan that historically centred on the lands of Strathlachlan (Srath Lachainn "Valley of Lachlan") on Loch Fyne, Argyll on the west ...
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