Gordon Scruton

Gordon Paul Scruton (born March 8, 1947) is a former Bishop of Western Massachusetts from 1996 to 2012.

Early life, education and career Scruton was born in 1947 in Rochester, New Hampshire. He received a master's degree in English, magna cum laude, from Barrington College, then studied at the Boston University School of Theology, receiving a master's degree in theology in 1971. Scruton married Rebecca S. Polley in 1968. and served as an assistant rector at St. Mark's Church in Riverside, Rhode Island and at St. Paul's Church in Kingston, Rhode Island in the mid-1970s.

He has been very active in the House of Bishops since 2001. Scruton has been on the court for the trial of a bishop. He has acted as a mediator in the dispute between the Bishop of Connecticut and some priests in that state in 2007. In 2009, he also served on a committee to assist the Diocese of Southern Virginia in their internal conflicts. He retired on December 1, 2012.