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SCUTT, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.

SCURLOCK, JOHN, son of David Scurlock, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. Langley Marish, Bucks. 2 Dec 1725 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Mar 1733/4 (but not in school lists).

SCUDAMORE, JAMES, son of John Scudamore, Kentchurch, Herefs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Cooke, Kt, Highnam, Gloucs.; b.; adm.; KS 1658; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student from 10 Feb 1662; BA 1665; mentioned in letter of 27 Jun 1663 written by his grandfather to Richard Busby (qv) (Nichols, Literary Illustrations, iv, 395); author, Homer à la Mode, a mock poem upon the First and Second Books of Homer’s Iliads, 1664; drowned in river Wye at Hereford 12 Jul 1666.

SCUDAMORE, HON. JOHN, youngest son of John Scudamore, 2nd Viscount Scudamore (I) MP, and Lady Frances Cecil, dau. of John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter; b. ; at school under Knipe (J. E. B. Mayor and R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , ii, 160); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 27 Oct 1701, aged 14; adm. Inner Temple 21 Oct 1700; Grand Tour (Italy) 1704-5; d. unm. Feb 1713.

SCUDAMORE, HENRY, 3RD DUKE OF BEAUFORT, son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners, and his second wife Lady Rachel Noel, youngest dau. of Wriothesley Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough; b. 26 Mar 1707; succ. father as 3rd Duke of Beaufort 24 May 1714; adm. Feb 1714/5; in under school list 1718; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Oct 1720; DCL 22 Apr 1725; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1725-7; High Steward, Hereford 1729; assumed surname of Scudamore in lieu of Somerset, on succeeding in right of wife to Holme Lacy estate, Herefordshire, 1730; m. 28 Jun 1729 Hon. Frances Scudamore, afterwards wife of Charles Fitzroy-Scudamore (qv), only dau. of James Scudamore, 3rd Viscount Scudamore (I); d. 24 Feb 1744/5.

SCUDAMORE, ---; b.; at school 1661-5 (Busby’s Account Book); a boarder.

SCROOPE, SIR ADRIAN, son of Sir Gervase Scrope, Kt, Cockerington, Lincs. , and Catherine, dau. of John Hungerford, Hungerford, Wilts. ; b. 1615; at school under Osbaldeston (Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , i, 10); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 May 1632, aged 16, matr. 1632; MA 1635/6; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jun 1634; served in Royal army throughout Civil War; he and his father were fined over £6000 by Parliament for their delinquency; MP Great Grimsby Apr 1661; KB 23 Apr 1661; m. Mary, second dau. of Sir Robert Carr, Bart. , Sleaford, Lincs. ; d. c. Sep 1666. DNB.