Lesbia Lesley Scott

SCOTT, Lesbia Lesley (née Locket). b. Willesden, London, 11 August 1898; d. Pershore, Worcestershire, 9 November 1986. She married John Mortimer Scott (d. 1969), an officer in the Royal Navy, who served in two World Wars and subsequently became a Church of England vicar (deacon 1952, priest 1953). She wrote religious dramas, including the one-act That Fell Arrest (1937), Then will she return (1948), and The Window (1951), described as ‘a pageant play of the Church of England’. After her husband’s death, she moved to Stratford-upon-Avon. Scott wrote hymns with tunes for her own children, published in a booklet, Everyday Hymns for Children (London: the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1929; New...