CFHS code : AG222
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of CHRISTOPHER ROBERT IND SCOTT b Aug 9th 1866 d July 26th 1900 also of his wife ROSE MARY SCOTT b Sep 12 1867 d March 16 1931
Monument : Stone cross/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202878, 0.13647441 – click here for location
Monument
This grave is located two rows west of the west path and just south of the path that leads from the centre circle in the parish of Andrew the Great. It has been hidden by brambles for many years. The cross is missing and the top two tiers of the plinth have become separated from the base. However the inscriptions are still clear, though partially hidden, and the kerb stones intact.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of CHRISTOPHER ROBERT IND SCOTT born Aug 9th 1866 died July 26th 1900
Also of his wife ROSE MARY SCOTT born Sep 12 1867 died March 16 1931
Christopher Robert Ind Scott (9 August 1866 – 26 July 1900)
Christopher was the son of Robert (1831-1866) and Elizabeth Starr (née Ind) (1830-1918). His father was a chemist, and later soda water manufacturer who died in April 1866, four months before Christopher was born. Elizabeth Scott continued the business, and raised Christopher and his four siblings at 10 St. Andrew’s Hill. Christopher trained as an architect under Richard Reynold Rowe (1824-1899) and the two formed a partnership in c.1894, under the name of Messrs. Rowe and Scott.
He married Rose Farren in 1892 and they had at least one daughter: Dorothy Mary (1892-). The family lived at 3 Post Office Terrace, St. Andrew’s Street. Richard Rowe died in December 1899, and Christopher took on the running of the architechure practice. In May 1900 The Cambridge News announced that they had aquired new offices at Camden Place and ‘the premises will undergo extensive reconstruction and enlargement. The plans that have been drawn by Mr. Scott, architect of the firm of Messrs. Rowe and Scott of Cambridge come under the consideration of the Council of Jesus College this week. Of the plans, we may, however go so far as to say that Mr. Scott has designed a front which when completed will be an ornament to the street. The new offices will be the home of the commercial and literary staff, and is intended to fit them up in a manner worthy of the commanding position which they will occupy’.
Christopher died at home of consumption (T.B.) aged just 33 years old. The Cambridge Daily News reported: ‘we regret to record the premature death on Thursday evening of Mr C.R. Scott of the firm of Messrs. Rowe and Scott, architects. Mr Rowe, the senior partner of the firm, died early in the year and the somewhat sudden task of controlling single-handedly the extensive connection of the firm fell upon Mr. Scott. Just as Mr. Scott was getting comfortably settled down under the difficulties indicated, he fell ill and in spite of every care and attention developed a rapid form of consumption, to which he succumbed’.
Rose Mary Scott (12 September 1867 – 16 March 1931)
Rose was baptised in Chesterton on 17 May 1868 and was the daughter of William (1836-1887) and Eliza (née Taylor) (1834-1909). Her father was a naturalist, who later worked as a photographer, nursreyman and print seller. The family lived at Huntingdon Road (1871 to at least 1881) and 14 King’s Parade (at least 1887 onwards). In 1891 Rose was working as a print seller’s apprentice. After she was widowed she ran a Lodging House at Post Office Terrace (1901) and then moved to Knightsbridge, London with daughter Dorothy, and her mother Eliza. In 1911 she was working as a Housekeeper and her death was registered in the Edmonton district of London in 1931.
Christopher’s mother Elizabeth Starr Scott died at 10 St. Andrew’s Hill on 27 November 1918. She was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 2 December 1918, and is thought to have been buried in the St. Andrew the Great area of the Cemetery. Her grave has not yet been identified.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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