Family and Education
b. 26 June 1624, 4th but 1st surv. s. of Sir John Scudamore† (d. June 1671), 1st Visct. Scudamore of Sligo [I], of Holme Lacy, Herefs. and Elizabeth (bur. 18 Dec. 1651), da. and h. of Sir Arthur Porter of Llanthony Abbey, Glos.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 142. educ. Paris (Michael Branthwaite); Beauvais College, Paris (Matthew Turner, Mons. Dupont); St John’s, Oxf. 20 Mar. 1640; travelled abroad 1644-?48.L.P. Smith, Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxf. 1907), ii. 364, 464-5; I. Atherton, Ambition and Failure in Early Stuart England: the career of John, 1st Viscount Scudamore (Manchester, 1999) 54; Al. Ox. m. 14 Sept. 1648, Jane (bur. 24 Feb. 1700), da. and coh. of Richard Bennet of Kew, Surr. 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 142; C115/42/2539. d. 18 June 1668.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 142.
Offices Held
Civic: freeman, Hereford 26 June 1642.
Local: j.p. Herefs. July 1660–d.
Military: capt. militia horse, Herefs. 1660–d.
Parlimentarian
: of Holme Lacy, Herefs.
Likenesses
Likenesses: fun. monument, Holme Lacy church.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
SCUDAMORE, James (1624-68), of Holme Lacy, Herefs.
Will
not found.
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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