Christopher Roper, 2nd Baron Teynham
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Christopher Roper, 2nd Baron Teynham (b. Dec. 1561 d. 16 Apr. 1622) was an
English peer The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerag ...
. He became the second
Baron Teynham Baron Teynham, of Teynham in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1616 for Sir John Roper. The family seat is Pylewell Park, near Lymington, Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Cere ...
in 1618, after the death of his father,
John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham John Roper (died 1618) was an English peer, created Baron Teynham in 1616. Early life John Roper was the eldest son of Christopher Roper (MP), Christopher Roper, Esq. of Lynsted, Kent, and his wife Elizabeth Blore. The Ropers (whose original su ...
. Christopher was the eldest son of John Roper, 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. L ...
,
Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...
, and his wife Elizabeth Parke. The Ropers (whose original surname had been Musard)"A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire"
pg. 1092
were an old Kentish family with strong Catholic connections.


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1561 births 1622 deaths 2
Christopher Christopher is the English language, English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek language, Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or ''Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Jesus ...
People from the Borough of Swale People from Lynsted 17th-century English people {{England-stub