Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes

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

Life Scott-Stokes was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he came to know the economist Roy Harrod.Daniele Besomi, Scott-Stokes, Henry Folliott, The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod 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, becoming managing director.John Brunsdon, A personal history of Glastonbury over the last 55 years In 1928 he collaborated with J. Colby Morland on 'The Security of the Worker', a paper delivered to the conference of Quaker Employers.'The Security of the Worker. What Some Employers Think', The Manchester Guardian, 16 April 1928.

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. In 1952 he turned down the offer of an OBE.People who snubbed honours from the Queen: in full, The Telegraph, 25 January 2012. He died on 19 January 1976.'Deaths', The Times, 21 January 1976, p.32

Works 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.

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