C.P. Scott (Leaders) – Overview, Biography

C.P. Scott
Name:C.P. Scott
Real Name:C. P. Scott
Occupation: Leaders
Gender:Male
Birth Day: October 26,
1846
Death Date:1 January 1932(1932-01-01) (aged 85)
Age: Aged 85
Birth Place: Bath, Somerset,
British
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio

C.P. Scott

C.P. Scott was born on October 26, 1846 in Bath, Somerset, British (85 years old). C.P. Scott is a Leaders, zodiac sign: Scorpio. Nationality: British. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

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As per our current Database, C.P. Scott died on 1 January 1932(1932-01-01) (aged 85).

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Biography

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1870

Educated at Hove House and Clapham Grammar School, Scott studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He took a first in Greats in the autumn of 1869, then in 1870 went to Edinburgh to train on The Scotsman. While at Oxford, his cousin John Taylor, who ran the London office of the Manchester Guardian, decided that the paper needed an editor based in Manchester and offered Scott the post. Scott already enjoyed a familial connection with the paper; its founder, John Edward Taylor, was his uncle, and at the time of his birth Scott’s father, Russell Scott, was the paper’s owner, though he later sold it back to Taylor’s sons under the terms of Taylor’s will. Accepting the offer, Scott joined the paper as their London editor in February 1871 and became its editor on 1 January 1872.

1874

In 1874, Scott married Rachel Cook, who had been one of the first undergraduates of the College for Women, Hitchin (later Girton College, Cambridge). She died in the midst of the dispute over Taylor’s will. Their daughter Madeline married long-time Guardian contributor Charles Edward Montague. Their eldest son Lawrence died in 1908, aged thirty-one, after contracting tuberculosis. His middle son John became the Manchester Guardian’s manager and founder of the Scott Trust. Youngest son Ted, who succeeded his father as editor, drowned in a sailing accident after less than three years in the post. John and Ted Scott jointly inherited the ownership of the Manchester Guardian & Evening News Ltd.; after Ted’s death John passed it on to the Scott Trust.

1882

In 1882, having built a new house in Darley Dale in Derbyshire, Sir Joseph Whitworth leased The Firs in Fallowfield in Manchester to his friend C. P. Scott. After Scott’s death the house became the property of the University of Manchester, and was the Vice-Chancellor’s residence until 1991. Scott used to travel into his Cross Street office by bicycle.

1886

As editor Scott initially maintained the Manchester Guardian’s well-established moderate Liberal line, “to the right of the party, to the right, indeed, of much of its own special reporting”. However, when in 1886 the whigs led by Lord Hartington and a few radicals led by Joseph Chamberlain, split the party, formed the Liberal Unionist Party and gave their backing to the Conservatives, Scott’s Manchester Guardian swung to the left and helped Gladstone lead the party towards support for Irish Home Rule and ultimately the “new liberalism”.

In 1886, Scott fought his first general election as a Liberal candidate, an unsuccessful attempt in the Manchester North East constituency; he stood again for the same seat in 1891 and 1892. He was elected at the 1895 election as MP for Leigh, and thereafter spent long periods away in London during the parliamentary session. His combined position as a Liberal backbencher, the editor of an important Liberal newspaper, and the president of the Manchester Liberal Federation made him an influential figure in Liberal circles, albeit in the middle of a long period of opposition. He was re-elected at the 1900 election despite the unpopular stand against the Boer War that the Guardian had taken, but retired from Parliament at the time of the Liberal landslide victory in 1906, when he was occupied with the difficult process of becoming owner of the newspaper he edited.

1905

In 1905, the Manchester Guardian’s owner, Edward Taylor, died. His will provided that the trustees of his estate should give Scott first refusal on the copyright of the Manchester Guardian at £10,000, and recommended that they should offer him the offices and printing works of the paper on “moderate and reasonable terms”. However, they were not required to sell it at all, and could continue to run the paper themselves “on the same lines and in the same spirit as heretofore”. Furthermore, one of the trustees was a nephew of Taylor and would financially benefit from forcing up the price at which Scott could buy the paper, and another was the Manchester Guardian’s manager, but faced losing his job if Scott took control. Scott was therefore forced to dig deep to buy the paper: he paid a total of £240,000, taking large loans from his sisters and from Taylor’s widow (who had been his chief supporter among the trustees) to do so. Taylor’s other paper, the Manchester Evening News, was inherited by his nephews in the Allen family. Scott made an agreement to buy the MEN in 1922 and gained full control of it in 1929.

1916

Although a lifelong liberal, Scott had a troubled relationship with Lloyd George. Perhaps most instructive of his communicating skills was the introduction he made of Chaim Weizmann to Lloyd George. He struck up a remarkable friendship with the Jewish émigré, whose intellectual brilliance and business savvy was lately attracting the attention of even the Tory Press and senior ministers. Scott wrote regularly in the New Statesman dealing frankly and openly with the Samuel Memorandum; they would all come together in Downing Street for a top-level summit on the Palestine Question. But Scott also investigated the wartime traitor Sir Roger Casement. His story was linked to Michael Collins’ Dublin builder Batt O’Connor, who more than any Irishman had served to hide Collins’s presence from the RIC. In Ulster Joe Devlin warned the Left of the impending violence should they not heed the warnings contained in the newspapers about the coming military occupation. The Curragh incident had profoundly shocked the establishment in Ireland; on 27 July 1916 Scott would hold just a one-off meeting with General Macready, Lord Reading and Lloyd George in the aftermath of the Easter Rising.

1921

In a 1921 essay marking the Manchester Guardian’s centenary (at which time he had served nearly fifty years as editor), Scott put down his opinions on the role of the newspaper. He argued that the “primary office” of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying “comment is free, but facts are sacred”. Even editorial comment has its responsibilities: “It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair”. A newspaper should have a “soul of its own”, with staff motivated by a “common ideal”: although the business side of a newspaper must be competent, if it becomes dominant the paper will face “distressing consequences”.

1930

Scott was made a Freeman of the City of Manchester in 1930.

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