List of Famous people with last name Masham
Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham
Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, was an English courtier. She was a favourite of Queen Anne, and a cousin of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.
Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham
Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham KG was a favourite of Henry V, who performed many diplomatic missions. He was beheaded for his involvement in the notional Southampton Plot to assassinate the king. Some historians believe that the charge was trumped-up to punish him for other acts of disloyalty, and that there may never have been such a plot.
Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham
Henry le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham was an English soldier and administrator.
Stephen Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Masham
Stephen Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Masham and Upsale (1345–1406) was the second surviving son of Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham and his second wife Joan. Stephen Scrope had a brother, John, and a sister Joan, who married Hugh FitzHugh, 2nd Baron FitzHugh
Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham
Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham, was a British courtier in the court of Queen Anne, and the husband of her favourite, Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham.
Thomas Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Masham
Thomas Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Masham was the third surviving son of John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham. He succeeded to his father's title and estates in 1455 at the age of twenty-six, as 5th Baron Scrope of Masham, and was summoned to Parliament from 9 October 1459 until 19 August 1472. He married by settlement, dated 4 May 1453, Elizabeth de Greystoke, daughter of Ralph de Greystoke, 5th Baron Greystoke and Elizabeth FitzHugh. Loyal to King Henry VI of England and the House of Lancaster in the early years of the Wars of the Roses, he was granted an annuity of twenty Marks in 1459, 'for services against the House of York.' He died in 1475; his widow Elizabeth, who married again, survived until the first year of the reign of King Richard III of England, dying in December 1483.
John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham
John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham was an English peer, Privy Councillor and Treasurer of England.