Of Castle Combe, Wiltshire: English landscape painter, sportsman, and friend of Walter Scott; he published The Art of Deerstalking (1838) and Days and Nights of Salmon-Fishing in the Tweed (1843). He corresponded with Fox Maule and William Stewart Rose.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY William Scrope:

The Art of Deer-stalking; illustrated by a Narrative of a few Days' Sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some Account of the Nature and Habits of Red Deer, and a short Description of the Scotch Forests; Legends, Superstitions, Stories of Poachers and Freebooters.