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John Scawen

John Scawen

Male 1750 - Abt 1800  (~ 49 years)    Has 6 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name John Scawen 
    Christening 27 Oct 1750  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 1800  Madras, India Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I682845  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2014 

    Father Robert Scawen,   b. 1709   d. 1778 (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Winifred Borrett,   b. 1702 
    Family ID F284633  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Keppel,   b. 1752-1753, Middlesex, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F284554  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2014 

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  • Notes 
    • From the Diary of John Baker of Horsham 1772

      John Scawen, Lieut. in the Foot Guards, came into public notice later owing to his quarrel and duel with George Robert Fitzgerald.

      (See below, Aug. 27, 1773.) The same year Scawen eloped with Mrs. Horneck, wife of a brother officer, while she and her husband were both staying at his house in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens (see below, June I, 1774) so that his career was not lacking in incident. He m. her subsequently and in 1776 (see June 20) he was staying with his wife at the Blunts house at Horsham. After losing a fortune at horse racing, he obtained an appointment at Madras, where he was joined by William, Samuel Blunt's son. He was the author of 'The Girl in Style,' a farce acted at Covent Garden, and of New Spain or Love in Mexico,' an opera, 1793, but neither of these pieces was successful. John Scawen dsp. and with him the Scawen family became extinct.

      (Biog. Dram.; Taylor and Leslie, Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, ii. 69; R. Blunt, Mem. of Blunt Family.)




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