John Scott 

John Scott (1730-1783) was a Quaker poet and humanitarian of Amwell, near Ware, Hertfordshire. He is best known for Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral (London, 1760), Amwell, a Descriptive Poem (1766), Elegy, written at Amwell, in Hertfordshire, 1768 (1769), and Poetical Works (1782), which included the poem “Serim; or, The Artificial Famine. An East-Indian Eclogue.”   He was admired by Samuel Johnson.