John Scudamore (courtier)

John Scudamore, (1 February 1542 – 14 April 1623) was an Elizabethan landowner, courtier, and politician.

[1] He was the eldest son of William Scudamore (d. 1560) of Holme Lacy and Ursula (d. 1558), the daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Pakington.

[1] He wed his second wife, Mary Scudamore, daughter of Sir John Shelton of Norfolk and a member of the queen's privy chamber, secretly in late 1573 or early 1574 because the queen disliked her ladies getting married.

[5] On his death he was succeeded by his grandson John, his son James having predeceased him.

[1] Another son John Scudamore als Wiseman became a Jesuit priest.