Scrope, Richard (c. 1729-1787)

English clergyman.

Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (1757-67). Rector of Aston Tirrold cum Tubney (1766) and of Castle Combe (1770). Chaplain to King George III (1777-87).

Son of Richard Scrope. Educated at Oxford (B.A., 1750; D.D., 1764).

First letter in correspondence: October 24, 1783; Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 (London, 1887-88), iv, 1268.