Background
In 1609 he married Lady Elizabeth Manners, daughter of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland and Elizabeth Charlton. They had four children who all died young.
In 1609 he married Lady Elizabeth Manners, daughter of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland and Elizabeth Charlton. They had four children who all died young.
He was Lord President of the King"s Council in the North. He was created Earl of Sunderland on 19 June 1627. Their son Scrope Howe became the 1st Viscount Howe.
In 1663, Annabella, the only daughter not to be wife of a peer or future peer, was raised by Charles II of England to the rank, style, and dignity of the daughters of an earl, an unusual honour for illegitimate daughters of a mere peer.
In the meantime, the entailed estate passed not to his nearest relative (who was only a relative of the half blood) but to the descendants of his great-aunts. Having inherited Bolton Castle John, like much of Yorkshire, declared for the King during the English Civil War.
From Autumn 1644 until November 1645 the castle was besieged by Parliamentary forces, Sir John surrendering only after the last of the horses and all other animals are eaten, with the garrison inside starving. As punishment the castle was ordered to be slighted with much of it pulled down, and John Scrope fined £7,000.