| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Bishop of Chester | |
| Death Date: | 9 October 1564 |
| Appointed: | 6 July 1556 |
| Term End: | 21 June 1559 |
| Church: | Roman Catholic |
| Predecessor: | George Cotes |
| Successor: | William Downham |
| Death Place: | Leuven |
| Coat Of Arms: | Cuthbert Scott Escutcheon.png |
Cuthbert Scott (or Scot) (died 9 October 1564) was a Catholic academic at the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Chester.
Scott was made a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1537, became M.A. in 1538 and was Master of Christ's College from 1553 to 1556.
In 1554 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
He became D.D. of Cambridge University in 1547 and of Oxford University in 1554.
Scott was appointed prebendary of York and, in 1554, of St Paul's, London. In 1556 he succeeded George Cotes, former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, as Bishop of Chester by papal provision.
On the accession of Elizabeth I he was one of the four Catholic bishops chosen to defend Catholic doctrine at the conference at Westminster, and immediately after this he was sent as a prisoner to the Tower of London and then in the Fleet Prison 1559–1563. Being released on bail, he contrived to escape to the Continent.
He died at Leuven, on 9 October 1564.
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