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Scudamore, Viscount (I, 1628 - 1716)

Creation: let.pat. 1 Jul 1628

Extinct: 2 Dec 1716

Family name: Scudamore

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Arms:

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules three Stirrups leathered and buckled Or (Scudamore modern);  2nd and 3rd, Or a Cross pattée fitchée Gules (Scudamore ancient)

Crest:

Issuing from a Ducal Coronet Or a Bear's Paw proper

Supporters:

Dexter:  A War Horse Sable bridled, saddled, girthed and stirruped Or, on the head a Plume of four Feathers alternately Or and Gules;  Sinister:  A Bear proper gorged with a Ducal Coronet Or

Motto:

 Scuto Amoris Divini

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John [Scudamore], 1st Viscount Scudamore

1st son and heir of Sir James Scudamore, of Holme Lacy, co. Hereford (by his wife Mary Baskerville, widow of Sir Thomas Baskerville and only dau. by his second wife of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Coss Court, Tortworth, co. Gloucester), son and heir ap. of Sir John Scudamore, of Holme Lacy, co. Hereford, Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth I

born

22 Mar 1600/1

mar.

12 May 1614/5 Elizabeth Porter (d. 18 Dec 1651;  bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford), dau. and hrss. of Sir Arthur Porter, of Lanthony, co. Gloucester, by his wife Anne Danvers, dau. and hrss. of John Danvers, of Dauntsey, co. Wiltshire

children

1.

2.

3.

4. Hon James Scudamore, Member of Parliament for Hereford 1642-44 and for Herefordshire 1661-68 (b. 26 Jun 1624;  dvp. 18 Jun 1668;  bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford), mar. 14 Sep 1648 Jane Bennet (d. 21 Feb 1699/1700 ; bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford), 1st dau. and cohrss. of Richard Bennet, of Kew, co. Surrey, and had issue:

1a. ..... Scudamore

2a. John Scudamore, later 2nd Viscount Scudamore

died

19 May 1671 (bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford)

created

1 Jun 1620 a Baronet of England, styled "of Holme Lacy in the County of Hereford"

1 Jul 1628 Baron Dromore and Viscount Scudamore, of Co. Sligo

suc. by

grandson

note

admitted to the Middle Temple 1617;  Member of Parliament for Herefordshire 1621-22 and 1624-25, and for Hereford 1625 and 1628-29;  suc. his grandfather in the family estates 1623;  member of the Council of the Marches 1623;  a supporter of the King's favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, and was with him in the La Rochelle expedition 1627;  Ambassador to France 1635-39;  High Steward of Hereford 1631 and 1660-71;  an ardent supporter of the King in the Civil War, her was surprised by General Waller at Hereford in 1643, captured and sent to London, where he remained a prisoner for more than 3 years;  with his houses in Herefordshire plundered and his estates sequestrated, he compounded with the Parliamentary authorities for £2,690 in 1646/7

John [Scudamore], 2nd Viscount Scudamore

born

c. 1650

mar.

aft. 4 Jun 1672 Lady Frances Cecil (bur. 29 Oct 1694 at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford), only dau. of John [Cecil], 4th Earl of Exeter, by his first wife Lady Frances Manners, 1st dau. of John [Manners], 8th Earl of Rutland

children

1. Hon Cecil Scudamore (dvp. young)

2. Hon James Scudamore, later 3rd Viscount Scudamore

3. Hon John Scudamore (d. 9 Feb 1713; bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford)

died

bef. 10 Jul 1697 (bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford)

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament (Tory) for Hereford 1673-78 and for Herefordshire 1678-79, 1679-81 and 1681; Deputy Lieutenant, co. Gloucester 1694; High Steward of Hereford

James [Scudamore], 3rd Viscount Scudamore

bapt.

15 Jul 1684

mar.

shortly bef. 7 Mar 1705/6 Hon Frances Digby (d. 3 May 1729; bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford), only dau. and hrss. of Simon [Digby], 4th Baron Digby, by his wife Lady Frances Noel, 1st dau. of Edward [Noel], 1st Earl of Gainsborough

only child

1. Hon Frances Scudamore (b. 14 Aug 1711; d. 16 Feb 1749/50), mar. (1) 28 Jun 1729 (div. 2 Mar 1743/4) Henry [Somerset later Scudamore], 3rd Duke of Beaufort, and (2) Charles Fitzroy later Fitzroy-Scudamore (d. 19 Aug 1782), illegit. son of Henry [FitzRoy], 1st Duke of Grafton, and had issue by her second husband:

1a. Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore (b. 10 Feb 1749/50; dsp. 22 Oct 1820), mar. 2 Apr 1771 as his second wife Charles [Howard], 11th Duke of Norfolk

died

s.p.m. 2 Dec 1716 (bur. at Holme Lacy, co. Hereford)

note

Member of Parliament (Tory) for Herefordshire 1705-15 and for Hereford 1715-16

On the death of the 3rd Viscount Scudamore the Irish Viscountcy of Scudamore and the English Baronetcy became extinct. The Scudamore family estate of Holme Lacy, co. Hereford, passed to his only child, Frances, and eventually to her only child, Frances, Duchess of Norfolk . On the Duchess's death in 1820 all the issue of the 1st Viscount Scudamore became extinct, and the Holme Lacy estate passed to the heir at law, Capt Sir Edwyn Francis Stanhope later Scudamore-Stanhope, 2nd Bt. RN, great-grandson of the 1st Viscount's sister, Mary Scudamore, and her husband, Sir Giles Brydges, 1st Bt. Sir Edwyn was father of Henry Edwyn Chandos [Stanhope later Scudamore-Stanhope], 9th Earl of Chesterfield. The Herefordshire estates were sold in 1909.

 First written 4 Sep 2011

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