Born Bath, Somerset. Editor and eventually proprietor of the Manchester Guardian. He was a Liberal member of parliament from 1895 to 1905 and embraced the causes of female suffrage and a Jewish national home in Palestine. Died Manchester, Lancashire.
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Charles Prestwich Scott
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