Carr Scrope
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Sir Carr Scrope, 1st Baronet (20 September 1649 – 1680), versifier and man of fashion in the Restoration court of Charles II of England
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and Mary Carr, daughter of Sir Robert Carr, of Sleaford. He matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford, on 26 August 1664, being entered as a fellow-commoner on 3 September. He was created M.A. on 4 February 1667. On 16 January 1667 he was created a Baronet, of Cockerington in the County of Lincoln.
Scrope came to London, and was soon numbered among the companions of Charles II
and the wits "who wrote with ease". About November 1676 he was in love with Miss Fraser, lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of York
; but her extravagance in dress—one of her costumes is said to have cost no less than £300—so frightened him that he changed his matrimonial intentions. In January of the next year Catharine Sedley (afterwards Countess of Dorchester) quarrelled with him in the queen's drawing-room over some lampoon that she believed him to have written. Scrope fancied himself ridiculed as "the purblind knight" in Earl of Rochester's
Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace, and attacked his rival in a very free and satirical poem in defence of satire, an imitation of Horace. Rochester retorted with a vigorous lampoon, which is printed in his works, and Scrope made in reply a very severe epigram. Many references to Scrope (he was a man of small stature, and often ridiculed for his meanness of size) appeared in the satires of the period. He was a member of the "Green Ribbon Club
", the great Whig club, which met at the King's Head tavern over against the Inner Temple Gate.
In 1679 Scrope was living at the north end of the east side of Duke Street, St. James's, Westminster. and in August of the next year he was at Tunbridge Wells for his health, and with "a physician of his own". He is said to have died in November 1680, and to have been buried at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; the baronetcy thereupon became extinct.
and knight of the Bath (d. 1667). His mother, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Carr of Sleaford in the same county, died in 1685, and was noted in her day "for making sharp speeches and doing startling things".
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...
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Biography
Scrop was the son of Sir Adrian ScropeAdrian Scrope (royalist)
Sir Adrian Scrope or Scroope was an Royalist officer in the English Civil War.-Biography:Scrope was the son of Sir Gervase Scroope of Cockerington, Lincolnshire, who At the start of the war raised a regiment for King Charles I, and was left for dead at Edgehill, where he received sixteen wounds,...
and Mary Carr, daughter of Sir Robert Carr, of Sleaford. He matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford, on 26 August 1664, being entered as a fellow-commoner on 3 September. He was created M.A. on 4 February 1667. On 16 January 1667 he was created a Baronet, of Cockerington in the County of Lincoln.
Scrope came to London, and was soon numbered among the companions of Charles II
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...
and the wits "who wrote with ease". About November 1676 he was in love with Miss Fraser, lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of York
Anne Hyde
Anne Hyde was the first wife of James, Duke of York , and the mother of two monarchs, Mary II of England and Scotland and Anne of Great Britain....
; but her extravagance in dress—one of her costumes is said to have cost no less than £300—so frightened him that he changed his matrimonial intentions. In January of the next year Catharine Sedley (afterwards Countess of Dorchester) quarrelled with him in the queen's drawing-room over some lampoon that she believed him to have written. Scrope fancied himself ridiculed as "the purblind knight" in Earl of Rochester's
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...
Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace, and attacked his rival in a very free and satirical poem in defence of satire, an imitation of Horace. Rochester retorted with a vigorous lampoon, which is printed in his works, and Scrope made in reply a very severe epigram. Many references to Scrope (he was a man of small stature, and often ridiculed for his meanness of size) appeared in the satires of the period. He was a member of the "Green Ribbon Club
Green Ribbon Club
The Green Ribbon Club was one of the earliest of the loosely combined associations which met from time to time in London taverns or coffee-houses for political purposes in the 17th century....
", the great Whig club, which met at the King's Head tavern over against the Inner Temple Gate.
In 1679 Scrope was living at the north end of the east side of Duke Street, St. James's, Westminster. and in August of the next year he was at Tunbridge Wells for his health, and with "a physician of his own". He is said to have died in November 1680, and to have been buried at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; the baronetcy thereupon became extinct.
Family
Carr Scrope was eldest son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockerington, Lincolnshire, a CavalierCavalier
Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I and son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration...
and knight of the Bath (d. 1667). His mother, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Carr of Sleaford in the same county, died in 1685, and was noted in her day "for making sharp speeches and doing startling things".