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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.