Alexander Caron Scrimgeour

In 1881 was a 13 year old scholar living with his family at 1 Queens Gate, Kensington, London (England Census)

In 1901 Census was (Head of House) living in Rectory, Wickhambreux, Kent with wife and son and his brother and his family

In 1838 Richard Smith Appleyard sold Bateman's and its remaining land for £1,400 to the Rev. Joseph Gould, who was rector of Burwash from 1840 until his death in 1866. His executors sold the estate for £5,300 to Thomas Miller Whitehead of Duke Street, London who, in 1886, sold to Albert Jarvis who, in 1892, sold to John Alexander Macmeikan, of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire who, in 1897, sold to Alexander Carron Scrimgeour, of Maida Vale. Rudyard Kipling bought Bateman's and its land, Park House watermill and part of Dudwell Farm from Alexander Carron Scrimgeour for £9,300 on 28 July 1902. In 1902 Rudyard Kipling's family settled at Batemans, Burwash where he spent the rest of his life and wrote "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies.". He gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1926.