John Scudamore (1727–1796), was a British politician who sat in the

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for 32 years from 1764 to 1796. Scudamore was the eldest son of Richard Scudamore of Rowlstone and his wife Joan and was baptized on 30 October 1727. He entered

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in 1746. He married Sarah Westcombe, daughter and heiress of Daniel Westcombe of Enfield, on 26 August 1756. In 1761 he was Lieutenant-colonel in the Herefordshire militia. In 1741 he succeeded to both the Rowlstone estate of his father and that of his cousin William Scudamore of

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. The Scudamore family was one of the oldest in Herefordshire and had an interest both in the county and in the borough of Hereford. In a by-election in 1764, Scudamore was returned as

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for

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after a contest. He was returned unopposed in all his subsequent elections to 1796. Scudamore died on 4 July 1796 from a chill after a strenuous hunt in his park, soon after his re-election in the 1796 general election. The

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said of him “as a useful and disinterested Member of Parliament, and an active magistrate, he was deservedly respected”. He left 2 sons and a daughter.

References

Dictionary of Welsh Biography. SCUDAMORE family, of Herefordshire
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