Roger Taverner (Abt.1507-1582) of Upminster,

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was an English administrator and

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for

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Life

Taverner was the eldest of

Richard Taverner Richard Taverner (1505 – 14 July 1575) was an English author and religious reformer. He is best known for his Bible translation, commonly known as Taverner's Bible, but originally titled . Life and works Taverner was born at Brisley (a ...

's younger brothers. He was a

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and writer, said by Anthony Wood in ''Athenae Oxonienses'' to have studied at

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but not graduated, though university records do not confirm this.He is included in Venn's ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. Probably in the 1540s he became deputy to

Sir Francis Jobson Sir Francis Jobson (by 1509-73), of Monkwick, near Colchester, Essex, was an English Member of Parliament. Jobson married Elizabeth Plantagenet, the daughter of Arthur Plantagenet and the half-sister of John Dudley. Through her father, who was ill ...

as surveyor for the Court of Augmentations, and later he was employed (also as deputy surveyor) by the exchequer until 1573 (we have surviving various reports by him on crown woods, in British Library,

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43, 56, 62). He was elected to Parliament in 1555 as a member for Newport-juxta-Launceston, Cornwall (possibly at Jobson's instigation). He was also a writer of tracts on economic issues, such as 'Remedies ... of derth of victualles' (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 376 – dedicated to Queen Elizabeth), a similar work sent to her two years previously (mentioned in the previous work's dedication), and – unprinted, but more influential – his 'Arte of surveyinge' of 1565. With his wife—a member of the Hulcote family—he had three sons, one of whom, John, Wood reports became a surveyor.

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English surveyors 1582 deaths Year of birth unknown English civil servants English MPs 1555 Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall People from Upminster Year of birth uncertain {{16thC-England-MP-stub