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The Strand Magazine.
45

CLEMENT SCOTT.

Born 1841.

Age 26.
From a Photo. by Cundall, Downes & Co.
Age 35.
From a Photo. by Sarony & Co.


C LEMENT SCOTT, whose dramatic criticisms in The Daily Telegraph are among the
Age 50.
From a Photo. by Walery.
best-known and most powerful of the day, and who is the author of many popular books and plays, is the son of the Rev. William Scott, vicar of St. Olave, Old Jewry, was born at Christ Church Parsonage, Hoxton, and educated at Marlborough College. He was appointed to a clerkship in the War Office, 1860, and retired on a pension in 1879, when he joined the editorial staff of The Daily Telegraph.