Harry Mengden Scarth
| Harry Mengden Scarth | |
|---|---|
 Aquae Solis[1] | |
| Born |
11 May 1814 Durham |
| Died |
5 April 1890 Tangier |
| Nationality | British |
Harry Mengden Scarth (11 May 1814 – 5 April 1890) was a British clergyman, antiquary and an expert on the Romans in Britain.
Life
Scarth was born in Durham in 1814.[2]
He married in 1842 and they had a daughter Alice Mary Elizabeth Scarth on Christmas Eve, 1848 in Bath. She was also a writer and she published The story of the old Catholic and other kindred movements leading up to a union of national independent churches in 1883..
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 he was buried in Wrington.[2]
References
- 1 2 Harry Mengden Scarth (1864). Aquae Solis: Or Notices of Roman Bath. Simpkin, Marshall, & Company.
- 1 2 William Hunt, ‘Scarth, Harry Mengden (1814–1890)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2015
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