Thomas Arnold Scott was an Anglican missionary bishop in China during the first half of the twentieth century.
Scott was born on 9 June 1879, [1] and educated at Leeds Grammar School, Felsted School and Christ's College, Cambridge. [2] He was ordained deacon in 1902 and priest in 1903. After a curacy at St Paul, Halifax [3] he was SPG missionary in China from 1908 to 1950. In 1913 he became the headmaster of the Church of England school in Peking and then in 1921 Bishop of Shantung. [4] In 1940 he was translated to North China, retiring in 1950. He died on 29 March 1956. [5]