Captain G. T. Scovell
(1837-1923)
17 January 1861

Volume 2, page 159, sitting 1925.

Born in London in 1837, George Thomas Scovell was the son of George Scovell and Georgina née Bigge. 

He entered the Army in 1854 in the service of the 79th Foot (Cameron Highlanders), rising to the rank of Captain in 1857 and retiring in 1866. He was a recipient of the Indian Mutiny medal. 

He appears on the 1871 census, spending the night at the Bedford Hotel on Brighton seafront. He was 33 and unmarried. He gave his birthplace as Middlesex, London, and his profession as 'late Capt. in the Army.'

On 8 August 1872  at Albury in Surrey George T. Scovell, late Captain in the 79th Highlanders, eldest son of George Scovell of 34 Grosvenor Place, married Caroline Julia Gertrude, only daughter of Archibald Sterling Mathison of Lockner Holt, near Guildford (John Bull, 10 August 1873). 

He appears on the 1891 census, a widower living at 36 Brunswick Road in Hove with his four children (aged 13 to 7), a governess, and two servants. In 1901 he was living at 47 Brunswick Place with two unmarried daughters and four servants. He gave his profession as 'Retired Captain 79th Highlanders / J.P. Surrey & London.'

Captain George Thomas Scovell died, aged 85, on 30 May 1923 at 44 Brunswick Place, Hove. He left an estate valued at £13,045.