An intense, driven man, Scott Nearing's grandfather studied science and nature, practiced gardening and carpentry, and regularly received crates of books from New York City, amassing a large personal library.

* Helen and Scott Nearing ( 1970 ) The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living, Schocken

" Scott Nearing's radical worldview would stay with him for the rest of his life.

Cash was earned from producing maple syrup and maple sugar from the trees on their land and from Scott Nearing's occasional paid lectures.

Scott Nearing's journey over a century was neatly ( albeit perhaps facilely ) described by one biographer as follows:

* Scott Nearing's Address to the Jury.

Roots of this movement can perhaps be traced to some of Bradford Angier's books, such as At Home in the Woods ( 1951 ) and We Like it Wild ( 1963 ), or perhaps even more compellingly to the 1954 publication of Helen and Scott Nearing's book, Living the Good Life.

* The Good Life Center, Forest Farm, Harborside, Maine: advancing Helen and Scott Nearing's commitment to social justice and simple living

Nearing's father was a small businessman and stockbroker, his mother a vigorous, energetic, and idealistic woman who Nearing later credited for providing an appreciation of the higher things in life — nature, books, and the arts.

On the morning of June 16, 1915, Nearing's secretary telephoned him to report that a letter from the Provost had arrived, which noted that " as the term of your appointment as assistant professor of economics for 1914-1915 is about to expire, I am directed by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to inform you that it will not be renewed.

" The Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania was heavily stacked with bankers, corporation lawyers, financiers, and corporation executives, and Nearing's writing had not gone unnoticed.

Nearing's tenuous situation had been exacerbated by an open letter to The North American in which he challenged the right wing evangelist Billy Sunday to apply the Gospel to the conditions of industrial capitalism, including " the railroad interests ... the traction company ... the manufacturers ... the vested interests.

These speaking tours continued into the early 1930s, by which time public interest in attending live speeches and debates on political themes had waned and ill health forced Nearing's agent into retirement.

Nearing's aggressive social activism in the classroom and through the printed word brought him into conflict with his own employers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, resulting in his dismissal and his emergence as a cause célèbre of the American radical movement for the next decade.

" Reaction to Nearing's dismissal from the academy was swift, with department head Patten and others issuing statements condemning the decision.

The intense nationalistic feeling that swept the country now that America was embroiled at last in the war in Europe spelled the end of Nearing's Toledo days, as he later recalled in his memoirs:

" Nearing's reply was illuminating — he replied that he was a " pacifist " and left it at that.

Nearing's upbringing was that of a young bourgeois, his mother employing a part-time tutor and two Polish servants to clean the gleaming white house atop a hill overlooking the town.

Cooperators were, by the nature of their task, localized and conservative in their makeup, in Nearing's view.

As the Vietnam War took center stage in the mid-1960s, and as a large back-to-the-land movement developed in the U. S., a renewed interest in Nearing's work and ideas occurred.

Hundreds of anti-war believers flocked to Nearing's home in Maine to learn homesteading practical-living skills, some also to hear a master radical's anti-war message.

His death was a conscious leaving of life brought about by fasting, a decision and experience described in his wife Helen Nearing's memoir, Loving and Leaving the Good Life.

" Nearing's intellectual development followed a path of increasing awareness of the intransigence of the dominant classes of capitalist culture to adopt reforms that would spread the enlightenment and opportunities of the leisure classes to society as a whole.

The secessions in his life were progressive repudiations of American canons of moral conduct as well as indications of Nearing's perception of the fragmented, segmented, discontinuous nature of American society.

Another possible reading of Nearing's motivations and decision-making lies in his own writing.

Nearing's Summing-Up Speech ; 2.

Also ( as mentioned in Helen Nearing's own autobiographical Loving and Leaving the Good Life ), Hay Bright makes clear that they were not extremely " vegan " in their vegetarianism ( for instance, they ate yogurt and even ice cream ), and that they made good and regular use of the volunteer labor of young idealistic visitors who were always warmly welcomed and fed a hearty meal of fresh greens, Helen's famous soup, and Scott's gruel — a combination of raw oats, raisins, peanut butter and honey.

He was born at Winfield House in London, restored by his mother and named for her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth.

She agreed to the request and chose a new name, derived from her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth, who had an estate, Winfield Hall, in Glen Cove, New York.

Scott's father and his grandfather had been exponents of High Victorian Gothic ; Scott, when still a young man, saw the possibility of designing in Gothic without the profusion of detail that marked their work.

In his memoirs written late in his life, Scott Nearing would recall his grandfather as one of the four most influential figures in his life.

Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.

His grandfather was Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Herbert Montagu Douglas Scott, son of Sir William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton.

In 1934, the American composer Alan Hovhaness ( 1911 – 2000 ), who spent time with his maternal family members ( specifically the family of the Reverend Walter Scott, his grandfather ) in Pittsfield during his youth, wrote a fantasy for cello and piano entitled Legend of the Sunkook Valley ( Op.

His grandfather, William Scott of Sandgate, a suburb of Newcastle, was clerk to a fitter, a sort of water-carrier and broker of coals.

Scott Smith, whose great, great grandfather ( Ole Bull ) was one of the inspirations for the character, was cast as Gynt.

He is of Scottish descent through his paternal grandfather, Thomas Scott Strathairn, a native of Crieff, and of Native Hawaiian ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Josephine Lei Victoria Alana.

* The protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Beautiful and Damned is named for Comstock by his own reformist grandfather.

Also, having a maternal grandfather of Filipino ancestry gives Scott the distinction of being the first American of Filipino descent to serve as a voting member of Congress.

He was the grandfather of Sir William Scott.

He also had the distinction of wearing a one-bar facemask throughout his career, even though the NFL outlawed their use prior to his final season in 2004-he, along with Arizona Cardinals punter Scott Player, were afforded a grandfather clause.

This enrages Scott, who announces his hatred for his father, his uncle, his grandfather, Foxxy Cleopatra, and especially Mini-Me despite Austin attempting to advise him that he has to find his own path rather than constantly trying to live up to his father's expectations.

* Lord Herbert Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott ( 30 November 1872 – 17 June 1944 ), married 26 April 1905 Marie Josephine Edwards and had issue, maternal grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York

Although young, Scott was steeped in ecclesiastical design and well versed in the Gothic revival style, his grandfather, George Gilbert Scott, and father George Gilbert Scott, Jr. having designed numerous churches.

Haldane and his grandfather the physiologist John Scott Haldane.

His father, Francis Scott died with smallpox at the age of 29, just one year before the death of Henry's grandfather, the 2nd Duke of Buccleuch.

He currently has a recurring role on the hit MTV show Teen Wolf as Gerard Argent, the werewolf-hunting grandfather of Allison Argent and the latest nemesis of main protagonist, Scott McCall.