Scrope History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Scrope family
The surname Scrope was first found in Yorkshire where "few families were more important in the 14th and 15th centuries than the noble house of Scrope; their descent is unbroken from the Conquest. Few houses also have been more distinguished by the number of great offices of honour held both in Church and State." 1 The first record in Yorkshire was found in "Bolton, being from the period of Edward I., their principal seat and Barony." 1
The surname's origin can be traced to "one of King Edward the Confessor's foreign attendants named Richard, to whom the Anglo-Saxons gave the derisory name of Sceope, or 'the Scrub' either on account of some inferior office or perhaps as a merely satirical appellation, and who was one of the few Normans permitted to remain at court after the rest had been driven away." 2
Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire "was anciently the residence of the baronial family of Scroop, of whom Henry, Lord le Scroop, lord treasurer, and Archbishop Scroop, were both beheaded for high treason in the reign of Henry IV." 3
Early History of the Scrope family
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Scrope Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Scrope, Scroope, Scroop, Scope and others.
Early Notables of the Scrope family
Notables of the family at this time include
- Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton (c. 1327-1403), English soldier and courtier, serving Richard II of England, fought under the Black Prince at the Battle of Crecy (1346), a knight of the...
- Richard le Scrope (c. 1350-1405), Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, executed in 1405 for his participation in the Northern Rising against King Henry IV
- Colonel Adrian Scrope (c. 1601-1660), one of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles
Scrope migration to the United States +
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Scrope Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- Thomas Scrope who settled in Virginia in 1651
Contemporary Notables of the name Scrope (post 1700) +
- William Scrope (1772-1852), English artist and sportsman, son of Richard Scrope, D.D
- George Julius Poulet Scrope (1797-1876), English geologist and political economist, the second son of John Poulett Thomson, head of the firm of Thomson, Bonar, & Co., Russia merchants, of Waverley Abbey, Surrey
- Sir Percival Scrope Marling VC, CB, DL (1861-1936), 3rd Baronet of Stanley Park and Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire, an English recipient of the Victoria Cross
Citations +
- Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
- Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.