Harry Mengden Scarth

Harry Mengden Scarth (11 May 1814 – 5 April 1890) was a British clergyman, antiquary and an expert on the Romans in Britain.

Harry Mengden Scarth
Aquae Solis[1]
Born11 May 1814
Staindrop, Durham
Died5 April 1890
Tangier
NationalityBritish

Life

Scarth was born in Staindrop, Durham in 1814.[2]

In 1868 he published Aquae Solis.[1] He became the rector of the Church of All Saints in Wrington in 1871.

Scarth died in Tangier and was buried in Wrington.[2]

Family

In 1842 Scarth married Elizabeth Sally Hamilton, daughter of John Leveson Hamilton (d. 1825), rector of Ellesborough. They had a daughter, Alice Mary Elizabeth Scarth, born on Christmas Eve, 1848 in Bath. She published The story of the old Catholic and other kindred movements leading up to a union of national independent churches in 1883.[2]

References
  1. Harry Mengden Scarth (1864). Aquae Solis: Or Notices of Roman Bath. Simpkin, Marshall, & Company.
  2. Baigent, Elizabeth. "Scarth, Harry Mengden (1814–1890)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24789. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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