Walter Scarle (died c. 1401), of

Uppingham Uppingham is a market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Rutland, England, off the A47 between Leicester and Peterborough, south of Oakham. It had a population of 4,745 according to the 2011 census, estimated at 4,853 in 2019. ...

Rutland Rutland is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Leicestershire to the north and west, Lincolnshire to the north-east, and Northamptonshire to the south-west. Oakham is the largest town and county town. Rutland has a ...

, was an English politician.

Family

He married a woman named Margaret, whose maiden name is unrecorded. They had one son, Robert Scarle, who was MP for Rutland himself in 1406. Scarle is likely to have been related to Lord High Chancellor of England,

John Scarle John Scarle was an English civil servant and cleric. He also Clerk of the Parliament (as the office was then known) between November 1384 and February 1397. He was keeper of the rolls of Chancery from 1394 to 1397. He was named Lord Chancellor ...

Career

He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

in 1368, 1378, January 1380, 1386, September 1388, 1393 and 1395.

References

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