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, 1615- ca. 1666
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.
SCROOPE, JAMES, third son of Adrian Scroope, and Jane, dau. of Robert Newcomen LLD, Commissary, Cambridge Univ.; b.; at school under Busby; one Benjamin Strike of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, was bound over on 26 Apr 1644 to appear on the charge of buying several books from James Scroope, “a scholler to Mr. Busby”, that “were stolen out of Westminster Schole” (Middlesex Sessions Books Calendar 45, p. 3).
SCROOPE, GERVASE, second son of Gervase Scroope, Cockerington, Lincs., and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Cresswell, Sudbury, Shropshire; b. 2 Sep 1714; adm. Feb 1726/7; in school list 1729; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1733; BA 1738/9; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1756; High Sheriff, Lincolnshire 1758; d. unm. 5 Jun 1776.
SCROOPE, SIR CARR, BART., eldest son of Sir Adrian Scroope (qv); bapt. Aswarby, Lincs. 20 Sep 1649; at school (aged 12) in 1661; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Aug 1664; MA 4 Feb 1666/7; a man of fashion at court of Charles II; author of verses and satires to be found in the volumes of Dryden’s Miscellanies; cr. baronet 16 Jan 1667/8; d. unm. Nov 1680. DNB.
SCROOPE, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
SCROGGS, SIR WILLIAM, only son of Sir William Scroggs, Kt, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Anne, dau. of Edmund Fettyplace, Denchworth, Berks.; bapt. 1 Apr 1651; at school in 1665, boarder with Head Master (Busby’s Account Book); Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Mar 1669, aged 17, chorister 1669-73; BA 1672/3; adm. Gray’s Inn 2 Feb 1669/70, called to bar 27 Oct 1676, Ancient Jun 1678, Bencher 11 May 1681, Treasurer Jun 1686 – Jun 1688; KC 1681; knighted Apr 1681; presented address of thanks from some members of his inn for dissolving parliament 17 Jun 1681, and in consequence did not receive his vote in pension until 3 Nov 1682 (Pension Book of Gray’s Inn, ii, xvi, 65, 69); lic. to m. 1st, 1 Jan 1683/4 Mary, dau. of Sir John Churchill, Kt, Master of the Rolls; m. 2nd, 1 Dec 1685 Anne, dau. of Matthew Bluck, Hunsdon House, Herts., Usher of the Rolls; d. Jan 1694/5. DNB.