File MC3. - Papers of Captain Edward Scott [c.1752-1842] of the Scott family of Scot's Hall, Kent, with a note stating that they ...,

Papers of Captain Edward Scott [c.1752-1842] of the Scott family of Scot's Hall, Kent, with a note stating that they were 'found among the old papers of Mr Scott of Bodtalog, December 1870 - connected with Merionethshire and Wales'. The papers include a loyal address to George II from the sheriff and grand jury of Merioneth, 1743 (MC3/1), expenses for rebuilding Pont ar Ddyfi bridge near Machynlleth, 1807 (MC3/10), a list of subscribers to a portrait of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nanney to be placed in the town hall in Dolgellau, 1830 (MC3/12), election address of William Wynn, governor of Sandown Fort, Isle of Wight, seeking to become a candidate to replace Sir Robert Williames Vaughan as MP for Merioneth, 1836 (MC3/15), a prospectus of a building company to be called The New Aberdovey Town Company, (MC3/16), a letter from Scott to William IV thanking him for his kindness in continuing his pension (MC3/28), a letter from his brother Francis at Oxford whilst he (Edward) was serving as a soldier in France, 1768 (MC3/29), copy letter, 1786, from [Charles Fitzroy], baron Southampton, to Scott, together with copies of a letter from the Prince of Wales to Fitzroy telling him to dismiss staff from his service due 'to the reduc'd state of my circumstances' (MC3/34-6), and letters from James Mill, 1826, (MC3/49), and John Stuart Mill, 1839 (MC3/52-3). In 1798 Scott married Louisa Maria, only daughter of Lewis Anwyl and widow of Count Louis de Saumaise, who inherited Bodtalog near Tywyn. He served in the American War of Independence, and was an equerry to the Prince of Wales. A man of cultured and literary tastes he was acquainted with Thomas Love Peacock, James Mill, his son John Stuart Mill, and the lexicographer William Owen Pughe.