Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes

Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes (13 October 1896 - 19 January 1976) was an English businessman and writer.

Scott-Stokes was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he came to know the economist Roy Harrod.^[1] In 1921 he married Mary Elizabeth Morland, daughter of John Morland, the Quaker founder of Morlands of Glastonbury, a sheepskin garments and footwear manufacturer. He moved to Glastonbury and worked for his father-in-law's business,^[1] becoming managing director.^[2] In 1928 he collaborated with J. Colby Morland on 'The Security of the Worker', a paper delivered to the conference of Quaker Employers.^[3]

Scott-Stokes contested Weston-super-Mare as a Liberal candidate in the 1934 by-election, and the 1935 general election.

Scott-Stokes was mayor of Glastonbury six times, the founder president of Glastonbury Conservation Society and the first Freeman of Glastonbury.^[2] In 1952 he turned down the offer of an OBE.^[4] He died on 19 January 1976.^[5]

• Perseus; or, Of dragons, London: Kegan Paul, 1924. To-day and To-morrow series.
• (tr.) Glastonbury Abbey before the conquest by William of Malmesbury. Translated from the Latin De antiquitate Glastoniensis ecclesie [On the antiquity of the Church of Glastonbury]. Glastonbury: Central Somerset Gazette, 1932
• (tr.) Glastonbury Abbey during the crusades by Adam of Domerham. Translated from the Latin. London: Folk Press Ltd., 1934. The Somerset folk series, no. 28.