Colonel Adrian Scrope (Circa 1601 - October 17, 1660) was the thirty seventh of the fifty nine Commisoners who signed the Death Warrent of King Charles I in January of 1649 after the English Civil War. Eleven years later, during the Restoration of the monarchy, Adrian Scrope was tried and found guilty of being a Regicide and was executed. He suffered the usual cruel punishment for high treason at that time of being hanged, drawn and quartered. Events January 1 - Windows Win32 FILETIME epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer Dutch... October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... The following list of 59 Commissioners1 all signed their names to the death warrant of King Charles I, and in the order given: Commissioners John Bradshaw President of the Court. ... Charles I (19 November 1600–30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. ... Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... The English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, specifically to the first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of... The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... Drawing and quartering was part of the penalty anciently ordained in England for treason. ...

Adrian Scrope occupied the Scrope mansion at Wormsley, Oxfordshire and was a member of the extended Scrope/Scroope family, members of which appear in four of Shakespeare's plays and whose descendents retain private ownership of Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales to this day. Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Latin Oxonia) is a county in South East England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... Bolton Castle is located in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales. ... A village in the Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales lie in an area of high ground in North and West Yorkshire, England. ...

One of Adrian Scrope's sons, William is thought to have come to North America where he changed his name to William Throope presumably to avoid retribution. Adrian Scrope's father was Sir Robert Scrope. Both Adrian and Robert are sometimes referred to with the name Scroope. Some of William's descendents are referred to as Throop.

Adrian Scrope has several notable descendents including Professor Charles W. Woodworth, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Medal of Honor winner Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, and California Institute of Technology benefactor Amos G. Throop. Charles W. Woodworth (1865–1940) was the founder of the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. ... General of the Army, or less formally five-star general, is historically the second most senior rank in the United States Army. ... MacArthur landing at Leyte Beach in 1944. ... This article is about the military award; for the computer game, see Medal of Honor (computer game). ... Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. ... Arthur MacArthur was the name of the following men: Arthur MacArthur, Sr. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Amos G. Throop Amos Gager Throop (born 1811, died 1894) was a businessman and politician in Chicago, Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. ...

External links

• Adrian's portrait drawn by Robert Walker, hanging in the U.K. National Portrait Gallery (http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp04017&rNo=0&role=sit) It is item number NPG4435 there.
• A biography of Adrian with some detail about his trial (http://www.scroope.net/ancestors/cockerington/coladrianscrope1600.htm)
• Some details about his extended family can be found at the following links:
  • http://www.scroope.net/ancestors/cockerington/scropesofcockerington.htm
  • http://www.scroope.net/
  • Family tree of Amos G. Throop (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:668522&id=I08613&style=TEXT)