ABSTRACT
The benchmark for what was considered to be the exemplary life for Dissenting women for much of the nineteenth century was devotion to family, self-effacing good works and a strong adherence to a simple faith. This was admitted into the immediate presence of God, the Father and the Son. Mrs. Scott was the eldest daughter of the late Dr. Hawes, of Spital Square, one of the founders of the Royal Humane Society. Few women have possessed a greater share of unpretending good sense, fewer still have so anxiously endeavoured to employ the means and opportunities afforded them by Providence in promoting the welfare and happiness of others. In compliance with her own particular request, all mention of herself was omitted; but the attendance of a numerous congregation attired in mourning, was one of many proofs most gratifying to the feelings of the surviving members of her family, that the sterling, had not been unappreciated.
