James Scudamore, 3rd Viscount Scudamore (1684 – 2 December 1716),
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from 1705 to 1716. Holme Lacy House Hotel - geograph

Scudamore was baptised on 15 July 1684, the second, but eldest surviving son of John Scudamore, 2nd Viscount Scudamore, and his wife Lady Frances Cecil, daughter of John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter. He matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford in 1695 and was awarded DCL in 1712. He inherited the title

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and the estate of

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from his father in 1697. From 1698 to 1703, he travelled abroad in France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He married Frances Digby, daughter of Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby on 7 March 1706. Scudamore was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament for

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at the 1705 general election. He was elected MP for Herefordshire again in a contest in

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. In 1710 he suffered a severe fall from his horse when riding hurriedly to Hereford on electioneering business and suffered some impairment. Nevertheless, he was re-elected MP for Herefordshire at the 1710 general election and returned unopposed in

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. At the 1715 general election, he changed seats and was elected MP for

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instead. Scudamore died on 2 December 1716 from the effects of his fall from the horse. He and his wife had one daughter

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(1711–1750), who married Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, who divorced her in 1743 for adultery with William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. She remarried to

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and had one daughter Frances (1750–1820), who married

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but became insane.

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1684 births 1716 deaths Politicians from Herefordshire

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