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John Scott (1783 – 27 February 1821), was an English magazine editor and publisher.
Life[]
He attended Aberdeen Grammar School, as did Lord Byron, who was some years younger; he spent 1795-8 at Marischal College, but left without graduating.
When Byron published an account of his marriage in 1816, Scott called this publication indelicacy; Leigh Hunt quarreled with him over this.
He edited several liberal newspapers: the Statesman, which Leigh Hunt had recently founded; the Stamford News, published by John Drakard; Drakard's Paper (a London edition of this), which he renamed The Champion; and the most notable, the London Magazine, which he revived, as a monthly, in January 1820.
Under his direction, the magazine included works by such luminaries as Wordsworth, Charles Lamb , De Quincey, John Clare, Thomas Hood, Carlyle, Keats, Leigh Hunt, and William Hazlitt. He also agreed to write a third of the magazine himself, which he did mostly under pseudonyms.
Death[]
He died as the result of a duel, one of the side effects of the Cockney School controversy. John Gibson Lockhart had been abusing many of Scott's contributors in Blackwood's Magazine (under a pseudonym ("Z"), as was then common). In May 1820, Scott began a series of counter-articles, which provoked Lockhart into calling him "a liar and a scoundrel". In February 1820, Lockhart's London agent, Jonathan Henry Christie, made a provocative statement, and Scott challenged him.
They met on 16 February 1821, at a farm between Camden Town and Hampstead. Christie did not fire in the first round, but there was a misunderstanding between the seconds, resulting in a second round. Scott was hit in the abdomen, and died 11 days later. Christie and his second were tried for willful murder and acquitted; the collection for Scott's family was a notable radical cause.
References[]
- Oxford DNB s.v.
External links[]
- Works by or about John Scott (editor) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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