The third son of William Scudamore, a surgeon, and his wife Elizabeth Rolfe, he was born at Wye, Kent, where his father was in practice.
[1] He attended the novelist Ann Radcliffe at her death in 1823; surviving records have led to the suggestion that Scudamore's prescriptions worsened her condition.
He attributed the rarity of gout in Glasgow to the constant walking even of the rich citizens.
He was the first English author who mentions the frequent presence of a circular chest, instead of an elliptical one, in persons subject to gout.
He gave also abstract of major works on gout, and older pathological theories.
[1] His nephew was the prominent Church of England priest and author William E. Scudamore.