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                            Introduction
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Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes (13 October 1896 - 19 January 1976) was an
English businessman and writer.


                                Life
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Scott-Stokes was educated at Winchester College and New College,
Oxford, where he came to know the economist Roy Harrod. In 1921 he
married Mary Elizabeth Morland, daughter of John Morland, the Quaker
founder of Morlands of Glastonbury, a sheepskin garments and footwear
manufacturer. He moved to Glastonbury and worked for his
father-in-law's business, becoming managing director. In 1928 he
collaborated with J. Colby Morland on 'The Security of the Worker', a
paper delivered to the conference of Quaker Employers.

Scott-Stokes contested Weston-super-Mare as a Liberal candidate in the
1934 by-election, and  the 1935 general election.

Scott-Stokes was mayor of Glastonbury six times, the founder president
of Glastonbury Conservation Society and the first Freeman of
Glastonbury. In 1952 he turned down the offer of an OBE.
He died on 19 January 1976.


                               Works
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* 'Perseus; or, Of dragons', London: Kegan Paul, 1924. To-day and
To-morrow series.
* (tr.) 'Glastonbury Abbey before the conquest' by William of
Malmesbury. Translated from the Latin 'De antiquitate Glastoniensis
ecclesie' [On the antiquity of the Church of Glastonbury].
Glastonbury: Central Somerset Gazette, 1932
* (tr.) 'Glastonbury Abbey during the crusades' by Adam of Domerham.
Translated from the Latin. London: Folk Press Ltd., 1934. The Somerset
folk series, no. 28.


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