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{{Short description|Anglican priest and activist}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
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{{Infobox clergy
| honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]]
| name = Michael Scott
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| birth_name = Guthrie Michael Scott
| birth_date = 30 July 1907
| birth_place = [[Lowfield Heath]], Sussex, England
| death_date = 14 September 1983
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| religion = Christianity ([[Anglicanism|Anglican]])
| church = [[Church of England]]
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| ordained = 21 December 1930
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| parents = Percival Caleb Scott and Ethel
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}}
'''Guthrie Michael Scott''' (30 July 1907 – 14 September 1983) was an [[Anglican priest]] and [[Internal resistance to South African apartheid|anti-apartheid]] activist, who joined in the defiance of the apartheid system in [[South Africa]] in the 1940s – a long struggle for social justice in that country.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200911231071.html|title=Namibia: Michael Scott - a Man of Conscience (1907 to 1983)|first=Catherine|last=Sasman|date=23 November 2009|newspaper=New Era|accessdate=26 January 2018|via=AllAfrica}}</ref> He was also an early advocate of [[nuclear disarmament]].

==Life==
Scott was born in Sussex on 30 July 1907 and educated at [[King's College, Taunton]], [[Chichester Theological College]] and [[St Paul's College, Grahamstown]]. He was [[ordained]] by [[George Bell (bishop)|George Bell]] in 1932 and began his career with [[Curate|curacies]] in [[Slaugham]] and [[Kensington]].<ref>[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN (invalid) 0108153674 alternate version: {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} {{OCLC|25885092}} {{OCLC|59162245}}</ref>

He was [[Chaplain|Domestic Chaplain]] to the [[Anglican Diocese of Bombay|Bishop of Bombay]] from 1935 to 1937; and then served at [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata|St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta]].

In 1943 he moved to [[Johannesburg]] where he was [[Chaplain]] to the St Alban's Mission. While there he became the first white man to be jailed for resisting that country's racial laws.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dacb.org/stories/southafrica/scott_michael.html|title=Dictionary of African Christian Biography|accessdate=26 January 2018|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807045444/http://www.dacb.org/stories/southafrica/scott_michael.html|archivedate=7 August 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1952, he co-founded the Africa Bureau, "an organisation to advise and support Africans who wished to oppose by constitutional means political decisions affecting their lives and futures imposed by alien governments."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/african-bureau.html|title=Records of the Africa Bureau and related organisations|publisher=Bodleian Library|location=Oxford}}</ref> He was a leading international promoter of Namibian independence along with Chief [[Hosea Kutako]] and Captain [[Hendrik Samuel Witbooi]].<ref>{{cite news
|title=Michael Scott, 'a troublemaker' who helped people of Namibia
|last=Vigne
|first=Randolph|author-link=Randolph Vigne
|newspaper=[[The Namibian]]
|date=7 July 2006
|url=http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=28&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=25149&no_cache=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200605010040|work=New Statesman |title= The British Gandhi|publisher=|accessdate=26 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526140743/http://www.newstatesman.com/200605010040|archive-date=2006-05-26|first=Peter |last=Wilby
|date=1 May 2006}}</ref> For his efforts in the [[Namibian War of Independence]], he has a prominent street named after him in [[Windhoek]].

With [[Bertrand Russell]], he was co-founder of the [[Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)|Committee of 100]] in 1960. He met [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] during Ghana's celebration of independence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/ghana-trip|title=Ghana Trip|website=kinginstitute.stanford.edu|date=26 April 2017 |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Kingston near Lewes, St Pancras Church, Michael Scott window.jpg|thumb|400x400px|'''Michael Scott window'''|alt=]]

In later life, Scott was a friend of the philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]]. He died on 14 September 1983.<ref>{{cite news The Times|title=The Rev Michael Scott. Pioneer Campaigner against Apartheid|date= 16 September 1983|p= 14|issue= 61639}}</ref> There is a memorial window to him at [[St Pancras Church, Kingston near Lewes|St Pancras Church]], [[Kingston near Lewes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2884786|title=St Pancras, Kington Near Lewes: Michael... (C) Basher Eyre|website=www.geograph.org.uk|accessdate=26 January 2018}}</ref>

Along with his philosopher friend [[Bertrand Russell]], Scott was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a [[world constitution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961 |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B149-F04-022.1.3 |access-date=1 July 2023 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B154-F05-028.1.6 |access-date=3 July 2023 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}</ref> As a result, for the first time in human history, a [[World Constituent Assembly]] convened to draft and adopt the [[Constitution for the Federation of Earth]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preparing earth constitution {{!}} Global Strategies & Solutions {{!}} The Encyclopedia of World Problems |url=http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 |url-status= |access-date=15 July 2023 |website=The Encyclopedia of World Problems {{!}} Union of International Associations (UIA)}}</ref>

==Works==
Scott wrote an autobiography ''A Time to Speak'', published by [[Faber and Faber]] in 1958.

==Notes==
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==References==
{{refbegin}}
{{cite book
| last = Yates
| first = Anne
| authorlink =
|author2=Chester, Lewis
| title = The troublemaker
| publisher = Aurum
| date = 2006
| location = London
| url =
| doi =
| isbn = 1-84513-080-4 }}
{{refend}}

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[[Category:20th-century English Anglican priests]]
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[[Category:British anti-war activists]]
[[Category:British expatriates in South Africa]]
[[Category:English anti–nuclear weapons activists]]
[[Category:English religious writers]]
[[Category:Anglican anti-apartheid activists]]
[[Category:People educated at King's College, Taunton]]
[[Category:People from Crawley]]
[[Category:South West African anti-apartheid activists]]
[[Category:St Paul's College, Grahamstown alumni]]
[[Category:World Constitutional Convention call signatories]]

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