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William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell(17October 1745 – 28 January 1836) was anEnglishjudge and jurist. He served asJudge of theHigh Court of Admiraltyfrom 1798 to 1828. Scott was bornatHeworth, a village aboutfour miles fromNewcastle upon Tyne, theson of a tradesman engaged in the transport of coal. His younger brotherJohn ScottbecameLord Chancellorand was madeEarl of Eldon. He was educated atNewcastle Royal GrammarSchoolandCorpus Christi College,Oxford, where he gained a Durham scholarship in 1761. In 1764 hegraduated and became first a probationary fellow and then as successor toWilliam (afterwards the well knownSir William)Jones a tutor ofUniversity College.AsCamdenreader of ancient historyhe rivalled the reputation ofBlackstone. Although hehad joined theMiddle Templein1762, it was not till 1776 that Scott devoted himself to a systematic studyoflaw.Scott graduated as doctor of civil law, and,after a customary year of silencecommenced practice in theecclesiastical courts. Hisprofessional success was rapid. In 1783 he became registrar of the court offaculties, and in 1788 judge of the consistory court and advocate-general, inthat year too receiving the honour ofknighthood; and in 1798 he was made judge of thehigh court of admiralty. In this capacity he heard on appealtwo important cases having to do with the abolition of the slave trade. On 22May 1809HMSCrocodiletookDonna Mariannaonthe Cape Coast for breach of theAct for the abolition of the slavetrade. TheVice admiralty courtatSierra Leone condemned the vessel. AlthoughDonna Mariannawasostensibly a Portuguese vessel, Scott upheld the seizure on the grounds thatshe was actually a British vessel and her Portuguese papers were a fraud.Thesecond case involved the French shipLe Loisafter it had beenseized by theWest Africa Squadronforslave trading off the African coast atCape Mesurado.HMSQueen Charlottehadoriginally vindicated the seizure and confiscation of the ship and cargo.However Scott overturned this judgement, saying that the wayLe Loishadbeen stopped and boarded was illegal as \"No nation can exercise a right ofvisitation and search on the common and unappropriated parts of the sea, saveonly on the belligerent claim.\" He accepted that this would constitute aserious impediment to the suppression of the slave trade, but argued that thisshould be remedied through international treaties rather than Naval officersexceeding what they were permitted to do.Hetwice contestedOxfordUniversityin 1780 without success, but successfully in 1801.He also sat forDowntonin1790. He was elected aFellow of the RoyalSocietyin 1793.Uponthe coronation ofGeorge IVin1821 he was raised to the peerage asBaron Stowell, ofStowell Parkin the County of Gloucester.taking his title from the name ofhis estate. After a life of judicial service Lord Stowell retired from thebench – from the consistory court in August 1821, and from the high court ofadmiralty in December 1827. Lord Stowell married twice. His first marriage, in1781, was to Anna Maria, eldest daughter and heiress of John Bagnall ofErleighCourt, nearReading, inBerkshire, where the two later resided. They had fourchildren, one of whom, a daughter, survived him. He married again, in 1813, thedowagerMarchioness of Sligo, néeLouisa Catharine Howe, younger daughter ofthe first and last EarlHowe of the 1788 creation, widow ofJohn Browne, 1st Marquessof Sligo.Hedied on 28 January 1836 at Erleigh Court, aged 90, and the barony becameextinct.