Benjamin Scott

**Benjamin Scott** <small>FRAS</small> (15 Afrilu 1814 - 17 Janairu 1892) ya yi aiki a matsayin Chamberlain na birni London, daga 1858 har zuwa mutuwarsa. Kazalika da mutum mai dorewa a rayuwar birni, ya kasance mai fafutuka zamantakewar al'umma na zamani, yana aiki tare da fitattun masu fafutuka kamar Josephine Butler da W. T. Stead .

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haife shi a ranar 15 ga Afrilu 1814 a Islington, ɗan Benjamin Whinnell Scott, Babban magatakarda ga Chamberlain na London, da matarsa Susan (née Saunders). Ya kuma kasance jikan mai banki John Scott . Yayinda yake matashi ya shiga ofishin Chamberlain a matsayin ƙaramin magatakarda. A shekara ta 1841 bayan rasuwar mahaifinsa, ya gaji shi a matsayin Babban magatakarda, kuma ya kasance a cikin hidimar Kamfanin Birnin London a wannan matsayin a lokacin majalisa na Sir James Shaw, Sir William Heygate da Anthony Brown. 

## Chamberlain na Birnin
A kan mutuwar Brown a farkon shekara ta 1853, Scott ya karɓi buƙata a matsayin mai ba da kyauta na Kamfanin Wheelwrights, don tsayawa ga Chamberlain; ofishin yana cikin kyautar ma'aikatan hanta na kamfanoni daban-daban. Kusan kusan ƙarni guda an cika mukamin daga cikin 'yan majalisa waɗanda suka kasance Lord Mayor na London. Scott ya kasance ga abokin hamayyarsa Aldermen Sir John Key, wanda ya kasance Lord Mayor sau biyu (a cikin 1830 da 1831). Bayan zabe na kwanaki hudu, wanda ya kashe 'yan takarar £ 10,000, an zabi Key da karamin rinjaye (ƙuri'u 224).  A ƙarshen shekara ta 1853, bayan ci gaba da rikice-rikice da aka samu ta hanyar gasar, Scott ya yi murabus daga mukaminsa a ƙarƙashin kamfanin kuma bayan shekara guda ya zama sakataren sabon Bankin London, wanda ya shiga cikin kafawa. A watan Yulin 1858, bayan mutuwar Sir John Key, ya sake zama dan takara ga ofishin Chamberlain kuma an zabe shi ba tare da adawa ba. Wani mai ba da kuɗi mai basira, Scott ya ba kamfanin damar fuskantar Black Friday na tsoro na 1866 ba tare da asarar ba.

A cikin sama da shekaru talatin a cikin post Scott ya ba da girmamawa ga 'yancin girmamawa na Birnin London ga mutane da yawa masu daraja na lokacin, tare da wani bikin mai ban sha'awa da aka gudanar a Guildhall, kuma ya ƙare a cikin jawabi da babban biki da Ubangiji Mayor ya shirya don girmama su. A lokacin mulkinsa waɗannan masu karɓa sun haɗa da mutane kamar: Richard Cobden (1861); George Peabody (1862); H.R.H. Albert Edward, Yarima na Wales (1863); Giuseppe Garibaldi (1864); Ferdinand na Lesseps (1870); Angela Burdett-Coutts (1872); Ulysses S. Grant (1877); Benjamin Disraeli (1878); Rowland Hill (1879); Janar Sir Frederick Roberts (1880); William Gladstone (1881); Henry Henry Henry (1884); wasu da yawa;

## Yakin tsabtar
Tare da Josephine Butler, W. T. Stead da Sojojin Ceto, Scott sun nemi tallafi don haɓaka shekarun yarda, wanda ya kasance shekaru 12 a Burtaniya don mafi yawan karni. A shekara ta 1879 tare da Alfred Stace Dyer, sanannen Quaker kuma mai bugawa, ya kafa Kwamitin London don Cire Traffic a cikin 'yan mata na Burtaniya don Manufofin Karuwanci na Continental, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban. Kwamitin ya nemi hauhawar "tsarkakar zamantakewa" da kuma kawo karshen ma'auni biyu tsakanin jinsi, kuma yana da goyon bayan Butler da sauran masu fafutuka waɗanda ke adawa da Ayyukan Cututtuka masu yaduwa.

Dyer da Scott duka mambobi ne na Ƙungiyar Tsabtace Bishara wanda a watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1885 ya sami gurfanar da wata sananniyar uwargidan London mai suna Mary Jeffries ke gudanarwa; Montagu Williams ce ta kare ta, ta rinjayi ta yi ikirarin laifi, kuma hukuncin da ya haifar ya kasance mai kyau maimakon rufewa. Watan da ya biyo baya ya ga canjin dabarun, shari'ar da ta nuna karuwanci tana da goyon baya a manyan wurare. Scott ya sadu da Bramwell Booth da Stead a hedikwatar sojojin ceto, a kokarin samun Stead ya buga labarin karuwanci na yara a cikin *Pall Mall Gazette*, wanda shi ne editan. Sakamakon shi ne Shari'ar Eliza Armstrong mai ban mamaki, bugawa na The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon a watan Yuli, da kuma hukuncin da Stead ya yanke na ɗaurin kurkuku. A ranar 18 ga Nuwamba, Scott ya ba da jawabi tare da Millicent Fawcett a Exeter Hall don nuna hadin kai ga Stead .  Yaƙin neman zaɓe na shekara ya ƙare a cikin wucewar Dokar Kwaskwarimar Shari'a; Scott ya buga wani asusun ƙoƙarinsa a cikin wani rahoto ga Kwamitin London mai taken Aiki da baƙin ciki na Shekaru shida.

## Weybridge da iyali
Ya auri Kate Glegg (1812-1892), 'yar marigayi Kyaftin Thomas Glegg na 17th Light Dragoons da matarsa Sophia, a ranar 2 ga Agusta 1842 a Byfleet a Surrey, tare da wanda ya haifi 'ya'ya hudu. Iyalin sun koma karamin garin Weybridge a shekara ta 1854, bayan sun gina babban gida a gare su kusa da tashar jirgin kasa.

Scott ya shiga cikin al'amuran cikin gida kuma ya sayi a kan kudin kansa makircin ƙasar don gina cocin Ikilisiya ga garin, wanda aka yi wahayi zuwa gare shi da ra'ayin ayyukan maraice ga ɗaliban ma'aikata. An kammala ginin cocin a 1865 kuma har yanzu yana tsaye a yau a matsayin Weybridge United Reformed Church . An naɗa abokin aikin Scott na gida François Baron a matsayin Minista farko na cocin. Scott ya ci gaba da inganta al'ummomin cikin gida da kuma tallafawa abubuwan da suka faru na cikin gida; an gina ɗakin makaranta a bayan cocin kuma an ba da laccoci na mako-mako kyauta a gidansa na Heath House. A shekara ta 1863, an kafa kungiyar Surrey Congregational Union kuma Scott ya nada shugabanta na farko. Iyalin sun riƙe haɗin kai mai ƙarfi ga Weybridge da yankin Surrey na akalla wasu ƙarni biyu.

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