Scrope Berdmore

Rev. Scrope Berdmore (19 February 1708 – 16 February 1770) was an English clergyman.[1]

His father was Samuel Berdmore and his mother was Martha Scrope. He matriculated from Merton College, Oxford in 1724, gained his BA in 1728, MA in 1732, BD in 1738 and Doctor of Divinity in 1742.

He followed his father as Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham, in 1743 and was also Vicar of St. Stephen's Church, Sneinton and St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton and Rector of St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont and of Adbolton.

He remained in charge of St Mary's until his death in 1770[2] and is buried there. His portrait hangs in the church.

  1. ^ Godfrey, John Thomas (1907). Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham. Phillimore. p. 243. Retrieved 19 June 2018. Scrope Berdmore.
  2. ^ Antiquities historical, architectural, chorographical, and itinerary, in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent counties. William Dickinson, 1803

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