Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham ( – 16 May 1723) was an English aristocrat.

Early life

Roper was born . He was the son of Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham and Hon. Elizabeth Browne. Both of his elder brothers,

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, succeeded to their father's barony but died unmarried.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, 2000), volume XII/1, page 682. His paternal grandparents were

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and Philadelphia Knollys (a daughter of Sir Henry Knollys of Grove Place). His maternal grandparents were Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu and Lady Elizabeth Somerset (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Worcester).

Career

On 23 September 1699, upon the death of his brother

, Roper succeeded as the 8th

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, of

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. He conformed to

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. He served as a Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to

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Personal life

On 25 January 1703/4, he married Hon. Catherine Smythe, daughter of

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and, his second wife, the former Mary Porter (a daughter of

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). Before her death, they were the parents of: * Hon. Anne Roper, who married John Webb, a son of Sir John Webb, 3rd Baronet. * Philip Roper, 9th Baron Teynham (1707–1727), who died unmarried. * Henry Roper, 10th Baron Teynham (–1781), who married Catherine Powell, daughter of John Powell, in 1733. After her death in 1765, he married Ann Brinkhurst, daughter of John Brinkhurst, in 1766. After her death in 1771, he married Elizabeth ( Newport) Davis, widow of Thomas Davis, in 1772. On 22 January , he married Mary Gage, daughter of

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and Mary Stanley. After her death in , he married Lady Anne Barrett-Lennard ( Lennard), ''

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and Lady Anne FitzRoy (herself the eldest illegitimate daughter of King Charles II and

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).Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, pp. 1180-1182 and volume 2, page 2909. Before his death, they were the parents of: * Hon. Anna Maria Roper (1719–1782), who married Capt. Peter Tyler. * Hon. Charles Roper (1721–1754), who married Gertrude Trevor, daughter of John Morley Trevor, in 1744. * Rev. Hon. Richard Henry Roper (1723–1810), who married Hon. Mary Chetwynd, daughter of William Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd, in 1755. After her death, he married Mary Tenison, daughter of Capt. Thomas Tenison, in 1760. Lord Teynham died on 16 May 1723, from a self inflicted gunshot. After his death, his widow married Irish MP, Robert Moore, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Drogheda.

Descendants

Through his eldest son from his second marriage, Hon. Charles Roper, was the posthumously the grandfather of Trevor Charles Roper, 18th Baron Dacre, and Gertrude Trevor Roper, 19th Baroness Dacre. Through his youngest son from his second marriage, Rev. Richard Henry Roper, he was the great-great-great-grandfather of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton.

References

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