John Scudamore (courtier) (original) (raw)

John Scudamore, (1 February 1542 – 14 April 1623) was the eldest son of William Scudamore (d. 1560) and Ursula Pakington (d. 1558), the daughter of Sir John Pakington, but due to his father's early death was a ward of Sir James Croft of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, whose daughter Eleanor Croft (d. 1569) he had married by 1563. When James Croft became a Comptroller of the Household in 1570, Scudamore (though by then widowed) became a courtier and was appointed Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth and Standard Bearer to The Honourable Band of Gentleman Pensioners.