Robert Scott was an English academic philologist

Philology

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, clergyman

Church of England

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, and a Fellow (later Master

Master (college)

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) of Balliol College

Balliol College, Oxford

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, Oxford. He served as Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

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 at Oxford from 1861 to 1870, and as Dean of Rochester from 1870 until his death in 1887.

He is best known as the co-editor (with his colleague Henry George Liddell

Henry Liddell

Henry George Liddell was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster of Westminster School , author of A History of Rome , and co-author of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek...

) of A Greek-English Lexicon, the standard dictionary

Dictionary

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 of the classical Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 language. According to the 1925 edition of the Lexicon, the project was originally proposed to Scott by the London bookseller and publisher David Alphonso Talboys; it was published by the Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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External links

• Lexicon text at Perseus project - includes basic biographical information about Scott from the 1925 edition of the Lexicon
• Biographical index to Benjamin Jowett papers - brief biography of Scott
• Balliol College Portraits Collection - includes a portrait of Scott

Also known as Scott Robert.