William Scrope

William Scrope (1772–1852) was an English sportsman and amateur artist, known as a writer on sports.

[1] Scrope rented a place near Melrose, where he lived on good terms with Sir Walter Scott.

He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca of Rome, and a fellow of the Linnean Society.

[1] Painting views in Scotland, Italy, Sicily, and elsewhere, Scrope exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy, and later at the British Institution, of which he was an active director.

He married, in 1794, Emma Long, daughter of Charles Long, of Grittleton, Wiltshire, and had an only daughter and heir, Emma Phipps; she married, in 1821, George Poulett Thomson, who then assumed the name and arms of Scrope.