James Scudamore (died 1668)
James Scudamore (26 June 1624 – 18 June 1668) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1642 and 1668.
Scudamore was the son of
In 1661 Scudamore was elected MP Herefordshire in the Cavalier Parliament.[1] He appears to have been a friend of John Evelyn. To him has been wrongly attributed a parody in verse entitled ‘Homer à la Mode’ (1664), which was the work of his distant kinsman, James Scudamore of Christ Church, Oxford (son of John Scudamore of Kentchurch, 1603–1669), who was drowned on 12 July 1666.
Scudamore died in his father's lifetime, in 1668, at the age of forty-four and was buried at Holme Lacy.[1]
Scudamore married on 14 September 1648, Jane Bennet, daughter of Richard Bennet of Kew, Surrey. They had two sons and a daughter and his son John Scudamore (1650–1697) succeeded to the peerage on the death of his grandfather.[1]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Scudamore, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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