Name Mabel Besant-Scott | Parents Annie Besant | |
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Died May 22, 1952, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Grandparents Emily Morris, William Wood People also search for Annie Besant, Arthur Digby Besant, Frank Besant | ||
Mabel Emily Besant-Scott ("Mabs") (28 August 1870 in Leckhampton, Cheltenham – 22 May 1952 in Folkestone, Kent) was a Theosophist, Co-Freemason and Rosicrucian.
She was the daughter of the famous Theosophist, Secularist, and Co-Freemason Annie Besant and her husband Rev. Frank Besant. She had an older brother named Arthur Besant.
In 1892 Mabel married a journalist named Ernest Scott at Marylebone, London. They emigrated to Australia where she had a daughter, Muriel, and became a Roman Catholic. She returned to England with Muriel in 1909 but Scott did not sue for divorce until 1915. For some time she assisted her mother in both British Co-Masonry and the Theosophical Society Adyar.
After her mother’s death, Mabel Besant-Scott briefly became the head of the British Federation of Co-Freemasonry. A year later she abruptly resigned from Co-Freemasonry, joining the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship shortly afterwards and taking with her some of her followers from Co-Masonry. She was one of the most active members of this Rosicrucian theatre near Christchurch, which was led by George Alexander Sullivan.