James Scudamore (died 1668)

His father was the ambassador to Paris from 1635 to 1639 and James Scudamore accompanied him there some time.

[1] Scudamore matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 20 March 1640, aged 17 and remained there to 1642.

[1] In 1661 Scudamore was elected MP Herefordshire in the Cavalier Parliament.

To him has been wrongly attributed a parody in verse entitled ‘Homer à la Mode’ (1664), which was the work of his distant kinsman, James Scudamore of Christ Church, Oxford (son of John Scudamore of Kentchurch, 1603–1669), who was drowned on 12 July 1666.

Scudamore died in his father's lifetime, in 1668, at the age of forty-four and was buried at Holme Lacy.