Mabel Besant-Scott

Mabel Emily Besant-Scott Born 1870, daughter of Annie Besant. Mabel Besant married a journalist named Ernest Scott and they emigrated to Australia where he became a Roman Catholic. However, he was soon arrested for soliciting sex from a ten-year old boy and was sentenced to jail for several years, causing Besant-Scott to divorce him. After divorcing him Mabel Besant-Scott returned to England. For some time she assisted her mother in both British Co-Masonry and the Theosophical Society. After her mother’s death Mabel Besant-Scott briefly became the head of British Co-Masonry. She abruptly resigned and then shortly afterwards joined the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, taking with her some of her followers from Co-Masonry. Together with George Alexander Sullivan she managed the rosicrucian theatre near Christchurch, England. She died in 1952.