Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1713 – 22 August 1782) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 49 years from 1733 to 1782.

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Holme Lacy House

Born Charles FitzRoy, he was the illegitimate son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, and was educated at Westminster School from 1721 to 1730. He married Frances Scudamore in 1744 after her divorce from Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, in 1743. She was the only child and heir of James Scudamore, 3rd Viscount Scudamore, bringing him the Viscounts Scudamore seat of Holme Lacy. Fitzroy added the Scudamore name to his own on 22 March 1749.[1]

He was Member of Parliament for Thetford (1733 to 1754), Hereford (1754 to 1768), Heytesbury (1768 to 1774) and Thetford again from 1774 to March 1782.[1] Due to his continued forty-eight-year service in the British House of Commons, FitzRoy-Scudamore succeeded William Aislabie as Father of the House in 1781 but died a year later.

His only child, Frances (1750–1820), became the second wife of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, but became insane and was locked away for many years. After her death without children, the estate of Holme Lacy fell into extensive litigation, eventually settling on Sir Edwin Stanhope, 3rd Baronet, who adopted the additional surname Scudamore.[2]

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1733–1754
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1754–1768
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John Scudamore 1764–1768
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1768–1774
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1774–1782
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Richard Hopkins 1780–1782
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