Henry John Philip Sidney Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron of Teynham, was an English soldier and businessman. He studied at

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, and then at the

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Henry Roper-Curzon was born on the 27 May 1867 and died in 1936. He was the son of

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, by his marriage to Harriet Anne Lovell Heathcote, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Heathcote, of Shaw Hill House, Wiltshire.''

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'' volume 3 (2003), p. 3880 Roper-Curzon inherited his peerage in 1892 on the death of his father. He was commissioned into the

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as a second lieutenant on 14 March 1900. He later transferred to

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, seeing active service overseas in the

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, rising to the rank of Major. He was appointed as a

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of the French

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and later served as a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent, where he lived at Lynsted Lodge, near

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. On 26 June 1895 Lord Teynham married Mabel Wilkinson, daughter of the late Colonel Henry Green Wilkinson (1822–1894), of Pannington Hall, and they had two sons, Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, later the 19th Baron Teynham (1896–1972) and Ralph Henry Roper-Curzon (born 1899). In 1927 Lord Teynham also had an address at 8,

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, Mayfair, W1, and he was chairman of Glebofi Grosny Petroleum Company Ltd, Kuranti Syndicate Ltd, Peacehaven Estates Ltd, and Peacehaven Water Company Ltd, and a director of the Fanti Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Lord Teynham died in 1936 and was succeeded by his elder son, Christopher Roper-Curzon, a

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officer who had married Elspeth Whitaker in 1927.''

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'', Volume 170, Issue 2 (1927), p. 1178

Family estates

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