ROPER, Christopher (d. 1699)

ROPER, Christopher (d. 1699)

suc. bro. 1697 as 7th Bar. TEYNHAM (TENHAM)

Never sat.

b. betw. 1674 and 1677. 2nd s. of Christopher Roper, 5th Bar. Teynham, and Elizabeth Browne, da. of Francis Browne, 3rd Visct. Montagu; bro. of John, 6th Bar. Teynham, and Henry, 8th Bar. Teynham. educ. privately (James Dodd alias Walton).1 unm. d. bef. 23 Sept. 1699.

Details for Teynham’s life are sketchy but he may have survived long enough to undertake a tour of the continent before succumbing towards the close of the summer of 1699.2 A Catholic like the rest of his family, he was probably interred with his father and brother in the Benedictine church in Brussels. He was succeeded in the peerage by his younger brother, Henry.

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  • 1 G. Anstruther, The Seminary Priests: A Dictionary Of Secular Clergy in England 1558–1850, iii. 51.
  • 2 Luttrell, Brief Relation, iv. 564.