Christopher Roper (1508/09–1558/59), of
Lynsted
Lynsted is a village in Lynsted with Kingsdown civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The village is situated south of the A2 road between Faversham and Sittingbourne and the nearest M2 junction is Faversham three miles east. Lyns ...
, Kent, was an English politician.
He was a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Rochester
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in March 1553. He was the father of
John Roper, who was raised to the peerage as the first
Baron Teynham
Baron Teynham, of Teynham in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of England and the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1616 for Sir John Roper. His great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Kent. ...
.
"A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire"
pg. 1092
References
1509 births
1559 deaths
People from Lynsted
English MPs 1553 (Edward VI)
People from Rochester, Kent
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