Mabel Besant-Scott
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Mabel "Mabs" Emily Besant-Scott (
She was the daughter of the Theosophist, Secularist, and Co-Freemason Annie Besant[4] and her husband Rev. Frank Besant. She had an older brother named Arthur Besant. When her father and mother separated, she was to be under the custody of her mother, but in 1878 her father went to the High Court and won the case for custody. It was not until she was 21 that she returned to her mother.[5]
In 1892 Mabel married a journalist named
After her mother's death, Mabel Besant-Scott briefly became the head of the British Federation of Co-Freemasonry and held the highest thirty third degree in Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
In The Rebirth of Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente and Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions by James R. Lewis, the authors connect the ceremonies Gerald Gardner devised as being a neighbour to Besant Scott.[12][13]
Besant-Scott's portrait is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery London.[14]
Notes
- ^ "SCOTT, Mabel Emily Besant", Wills and Probate 1858 - 1996. Retrieved 2017-07-20
- ^ "BESANT-SCOTT Mabel E", FreeBMD. Retrieved 2017-07-20: Deaths Jun 1952, Folkestone 5b 529
- ^ ISBN 9780557763337. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ISBN 9789004172395. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Mrs. Besant's husband". The Hindu archives. 30 May 1917. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ISBN 9780521441339. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- Melbourne University Press. pp. 544–546. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
- ISBN 9780473174583. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Lord Mehers Online Edition". Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "The Campbell Theosophical Research Library". Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ISBN 1-86163-110-3.
- ISBN 9780719826931. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ISBN 9781576071342. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Mabel Emily Besant-Scott (née Besant)". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 25 June 2020.