Educated privately and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Scott (1846-1932) was editor (1872-1929) and governing director (from 1905) of the Manchester Guardian. Under his direction the newspaper raised to a distinguished moral force in the nation's politics. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in 1895-1906.
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Source: www ; DNB ; J. L. Hammond , C. P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1934).