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 Tutor. In 1779 he took the degree of D.C.L., and was called to the Bar 11 Feb. 1780. In 1787 he was appointed King's Advocate-General, and shortly after Judge of the Consistory Court of London. He was knighted in 1788, and in 1798 became Judge' of the High Court of Admiralty and a Privy Councillor. In 1790 he entered Parliament for Downton, and in 1801 was elected to represent his University. This seat he continued to fill till his call to the House of Lords with the title of Baron Stowell in July, 1821. He retired from the Court of Admiralty in 1828. He died at Earley Court, near Reading, at the great age of ninety. He was Reader at the Inn in 1799 and Treasurer in 1807. Lord Stowell's Decisions are recorded in Haggard's and Phillimore's Reports.

Admitted 8 February, 1619-20.

Son and heir of Robert Scrope of Wormsley, Oxfordshire. At the opening of the Civil War he raised a troop of horse tor the Parliament, and in 1647 obtained the command of a regiment. He took an active part in all the events of the war till 1649, when he was made Governour of Bristol. He is said to have assisted Colonel Joyce in carrying off the king from the Scots. His name appears amongst those who signed the Royal death warrant. In 1655 he was made a member of the Scottish Council. At the Restoration, though at first admitted to the benefit of the Act of Indemnity, he was brought to trial and condemned to death, which he suffered 17 Oct, 1660.

Admitted 20 November, 1686.

Son and heir of Thomas Scrope of Wormsley, Oxfordshire, and of the family of Scrope, Barons of Bolton. He was calle<l to the Bar 10 Feb. 1692. In 1708 he was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, and, on the removal of Lord Chancellor Cowper (q.v.), was one of the Commissioners entrusted with the Great Seal. Being elected member for Ripon he became Secretary to the Treasury under Sir Robert Walpole, an office which he held during the administration of that minister ana for ten years afterwards. He died 9 April, 1752.

Admitted 1 December, 1617.

Eldest son of Sir James Scudamore of Holme Lacy, Herefordshire, where he was baptized 22 March, 1601. He was educated at Oxford where he matriculated M.A. in 1642. He was created a Baronet in 1620, and elected for Herefordshire, which he continued to represent many years. In 1628 he was made Baron Dromore and Viscount Scudamore. In 1634 he went as Ambassador to France where he remained till 1638. At the outbreak of the Civil War he endeavoured to protect Hereford for the king, but had to surrender, and was sent prisoner to London. During his later life he devoted himself to works of charity and hospitality to divines and others broken in the wars. He died 8 June, 1671. He was locally famous for attention to arboriculture, and particularly of the apple, for the growth of which his county has since been famous.