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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.

SCRIVENER, SAMUEL; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1628, scholar 1629, matr. Easter 1631; BA 1632/3; MA 1636; ordained; Rector of Westhorpe, Suffolk 1636-43, sequestered; of Thurton, Norfolk; m. Elizabeth ---; d. Feb or Mar 1657/8 (will proved 10 Mar 1657/8).

Scrivener, Ronald Stratford, son of Sir Patrick Scrivener KCMG, and Margaret Morris, d. of Wal­ter Dorling, stockbroker; b. 29 Dec. 1919; adm. Jan. 1934 (B); left Dec. 1935; St Cath. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1938; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), despatches Jan. 1941; entered HM Foreign Service 1945, served Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Caracas, Berne, Bangkok; CMG 1965; HM Ambassador Panama 1969-70, Czechoslovakia 1971-4; Asst Under-Sec. of State FCO 1974-6; retd 1976; exec. Dir. British-Soviet Chamber of Commerce 1977-83; foreign relations and market research consultant 1983-; Freeman City of London 1984; m. 1st 20 Feb. 1947 Elisabeth, d. of Maj. Vyvyan Drake-Brockman; 2nd 1962 Mary Alice Olga Sofia Jane, d. of Sqdn Ldr Robert Charlton Lane RAF, of Havant, Hants.; d. 14 Jan. 2001

SCRIVEN, JOHN BARCLAY, second son of Edward Scriven, Dublin, and Elizabeth Barclay (IGI); b.; adm. 12 Nov 1770; KS (aged 12) 1771; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1775, matr. 14 Jun 1775, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1775 – deprived 18 Jun 1778; admonished 7 Jan 1777 for acting as second in duel between gentlemenn commoners, and deprived of Studentship for attacking Masters’ Common Room and threatening the life of Christ Church’s Rhetoric Lecturer; Ensign, 56th Foot 17 Dec 1778, 60th Foot 23 Mar 1779; Lieut., 18 Sep 1780; half-pay 1783; adm. Middle Temple 21 May 1776, called to bar 9 Jun 1788; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 1786; practised in Jamaica and at Dublin; “father” of the Irish bar; m. [by c. 1784]; d. in Dublin 29 Mar 1835, in 77th year.

Scriven, John Bagot; son of John Scriven, barrister, Lieut.-Col.Royal South Middlesex Militia, and Selina, third dau. of Henry Perkins, Hanworth Park, Middlesex ; b. 2 Dec 1839 ; ed. St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 May 1857, matr.Mich.1857 ; BA and 27th Wrangler 1861 ; MA 1884 ; Assistant Master (Mathematics) 1861-2 ; Junior Clerk, War Office Aug 1863 – c.1872, when he inherited a share in the Perkins family brewery ; partner, Barclay Perkins & Co, brewers ; Master, Worshipful Company of Brewers 1883 ; of The White House, Ashford, Kent ; m. 1st, 1865 Emily Hunt (born Swindon, Wilts.) (Venn, Al.Cant. ; living in Marylebone with wife Emily Scriven, 1871 Census, but marriage not registered until second quarter 1877, St.George’s Hanover Square) ; m.2nd, 1889 Adeline, dau. of John Batterbee, Islington, Middlesex, zinc worker ; d. 28 Aug 1893.