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Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott
Canon Fred Scott (from his book).jpg
Frederick George Scott during the Great War
Born (1861-04-07)7 April 1861
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died 19 January 1944(1944-01-19)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Language English
Nationality Canadian
Citizenship British subject
Genre Poetry
Literary movement Confederation Poets
Notable awards CMG, Distinguished Service Order, FRSC
Children

Frank (F.R. Scott)

Henry (H. H. Scott)

Frank (F.R. Scott)

Frederick George Scott (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was a Canadian poet and author, known as the Poet of the Laurentians. He is sometimes associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Scott published 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry. Scott was a British imperialist who wrote many hymns to the British Empire—eulogizing his country's roles in the Boer Wars and World War I. Many of his poems use the natural world symbolically to convey deeper spiritual meaning. Frederick George Scott was the father of poet F. R. Scott.

Scott was born 7 April 1861 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He received a B.A. from Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, in 1881, and an M.A. in 1884. He studied theology at King's College, London in 1882, but was refused ordination in the Anglican Church of Canada for his Anglo-Catholic beliefs. In 1884 he became a deacon. In 1886 he was ordained an Anglican priest at Coggeshall, Essex. He served first at Drummondville, Quebec, and then in Quebec City, where he became rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church.


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