John Roper (Attorney-General)
John Roper may refer to: *John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham (died 1618), English nobleman *John Roper, Baron Roper (1935–2016), British politician *John Roper (American football) (born 1965), former American football linebacker *John Roper (baseball) (born 1971), Major League Baseball pitcher *John Roper (British diplomat), former British ambassador to Luxembourg *John Roper (explorer) (c. 1822–1895), Australian explorer; namesake of Roper Peak and Roper River in the Northern Territory *John Herbert Roper, American historian and author a * John W. Roper (1898–1963), Vice Admiral in the United States Navy *John Charles Roper John Charles Roper (1858 – 26 January 1940) was an Anglican bishop in the Anglo-Catholic tradition in the first half of the 20th century. Biography Roper was educated at Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1882, he began his ministry with a cura ...

John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham
John Roper (died 1618) was a British aristocrat, created the first Baron Teynham in 1616. The Roper family is an English aristocratic family that can be traced back to 1066 following the Norman Conquest by residing in Derbyshire. Members of the family have held three hereditary titles: Viscount of Baltinglass, Baron Dacre of Glanton, and Baron of Teynham. Early life John Roper was the eldest son of Christopher Roper, of Lynsted, Kent, and his wife Elizabeth Blore. The Ropers (whose original surname had been Musard)"England's Topographer: A New and Complete History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2"pg. 704 In 1599, he had a new house, Lynsted Lodge, built at Lynsted. Upon the accession of James I, John was the first of the gentry in his county to proclaim the new king, for which service he was knighted in 1616 (although according to other sources he may have already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1587) and raised to the peerage as Lord Teynham on the same day. His contribut ...
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John Roper, Baron Roper
John Francis Hodgess Roper, Baron Roper PC (10 September 1935 – 29 January 2016) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. Early life Roper was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School (Manchester), Reading School, Magdalen College, Oxford (studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and the University of Chicago. He began his career as an economics lecturer at the University of Manchester. Political career Roper first stood for Parliament for High Peak as a Labour candidate at the 1964 general election, but the Conservative David Walder retained the marginal seat. He was elected Member of Parliament for Farnworth at the 1970 general election. In 1972 he acted as an unofficial whip for pro-European Labour MPs to help pass the Heath government's European Communities Act. He sat as a Labour Co-operative MP (1970–81) and for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1981 to 1983, when he was also the party's Chief Whip. His Farnworth seat was subsequently aboli ...
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John Roper (American Football)
John Alfred Roper (born October 4, 1965) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, earning consensus All-American honors in 1987. Roper was selected in the second round of the 1989 NFL Draft. He was on the Cowboys' Super Bowl XXVIII championship team that beat the Buffalo Bills. Early years At Texas A&M University, Roper was one of the best to play defensively in school history according to his coach, Jackie Sherrill. In 1987, he was the Southwest Conference Defensive Player of the Year, as well as an All-American. In his four years as an Aggie, they compiled a record of 36 wins and just 12 losses: three conference championships; and twice they were victorious in the Cotton Bowl. Roper, a two-time All-Southwest Conference and a consensus All-American, was at the heart of that success. Befo ...
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John Roper (baseball)
John Christopher Roper (born November 21, 1971) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in parts of three seasons in the majors, from until , for the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants. Sources

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John Roper (British Diplomat)
John Roper may refer to: *John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham (died 1618), English nobleman * John Roper, Baron Roper (1935–2016), British politician *John Roper (American football) (born 1965), former American football linebacker * John Roper (baseball) (born 1971), Major League Baseball pitcher * John Roper (British diplomat), former British ambassador to Luxembourg * John Roper (explorer) (c. 1822–1895), Australian explorer; namesake of Roper Peak and Roper River in the Northern Territory *John Herbert Roper, American historian and author a * John W. Roper (1898–1963), Vice Admiral in the United States Navy *John Charles Roper John Charles Roper (1858 – 26 January 1940) was an Anglican bishop in the Anglo-Catholic tradition in the first half of the 20th century. Biography Roper was educated at Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1882, he began his ministry with a cura ...

List Of Ambassadors From The United Kingdom To Luxembourg
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Luxembourg is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Luxembourg. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg''. From 1815 to 1890 the King of the Netherlands was also Grand Duke of Luxembourg in personal union, so the British envoy at The Hague was also envoy to Luxembourg. After the personal union was broken in 1890 the British envoy at The Hague continued to be concurrently accredited to Luxembourg until 1922. The Ambassador to Belgium was responsible for Luxembourg from 1922 until 1940, when Luxembourg was overrun by Nazi Germany. Upon liberation of Luxembourg in 1944 a '' chargé d'affaires'' was briefly resident in Luxembourg, followed by a resident military mission with diplomatic responsibility reverting to Brussels; but a resident head of mission was soon restored, in 1949. Geoffrey Alc ...
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John Roper (explorer)
John Roper (29 February 1824 – 15 September 1895 ) was an English explorer in Australia, remembered as the last survivor of Ludwig Leichhardt's successful expedition from Brisbane, Queensland, to Port Essington in 1844–45. History Roper was born at Gayton Thorpe, Norfolk, England. and was educated at schools in Fakenham and Lynn. He arrived in Australia in 1843, first settling in the Hunter River, managing a station for Alexander Campbell Walker. He joined Leichhardt's party in 1844, the two sharing expenses. He was one of three in the party who were speared by Aboriginals on the night of 28 June 1844 while they were sleeping. They had previously enjoyed good relations with the Aboriginal people, so had not posted a watch. Roper and Calvert survived but John Gilbert died of his wounds. One of Roper's head wounds resulted in the loss of sight in one eye. He returned to Sydney in 1846 with Leichhardt, then settled in Albury, where he became clerk of petty sessions in 1847, ...
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Roper River
The Roper River is a large perennial river located in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory of Australia. Location and features Formed by the confluence of the Waterhouse River and Roper Creek, the Roper River rises east of Mataranka in the Elsey National Park and flows generally east for over to meet the sea in Limmen Bight on the Gulf of Carpentaria. The river is joined by fifteen tributaries including the Chambers, Strangways, Jalboi, Hodgson and the Wilton Rivers. The river descends over its course and has a catchment area of , which is one of the largest river catchment areas in the Northern Territory. The Roper River is navigable for about , until the tidal limit at Roper Bar, and forms the southern boundary of the region known as Arnhem Land. Mataranka Hot Springs and the township of Mataranka lie close to the river at its western end. Port Roper lies near its mouth on Limmen Bight. The river has a mean annual outflow of . Etymology The first European to ...
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John Herbert Roper
John Herbert Roper Sr. (born August 9, 1948) is an American historian. The University of North Carolina has a collection of his papers. He was born in South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.A., received an M.A. and a Ph.D from the University of North Carolina, and an M.S. in economics from North Carolina State University. He is an emeritus history department chair and former Richardson Professor of American History at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia. He now teaches at Coastal Carolina University. He wrote books on Southern history and several biographies, on C. Vann Woodward, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Paul Green, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, and Benjamin Mays Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many in .... He has written several ...
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John W
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ...
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