Baron Teynham

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Barony of Teynham
Coronet of a British Baron.svg
RoperArms.svg
Arms of Roper: Per fesse azure and or, a pale counter-changed and three buck's heads erased of the second [1]
Creation date1616
Created by James VI and I
Peerage Peerage of England
First holder Sir John Roper
Present holderDavid Roper-Curzon, 21st Baron Teynham
Remainder tothe 1st Baron's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Seat(s) Pylewell Park
MottoSPES MEA IN DEO
(My hope is in God)
Heraldic achievement of Roper, Baron Teynham Baron Teynham coa.png
Heraldic achievement of Roper, 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.

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In 1788, the 14th Baron Teynham inherited his distant cousin’s John Barnewall Curzon’s wealth and estate at Water Perry, Northamptonshire when he died. Thus he adopted, by royal licence, the additional surname of Curzon. Despite not being descended from the Curzon family, [2] [3] his descendants, such as John Roper-Curzon, the 21st Baron, and the present baron, still go by their full surname of 'Roper-Curzon'.

History

The Roper family is an English aristocratic family that can be traced back to 1066 following the Norman Conquest by residing in Derbyshire. [3] Members of the family have held three hereditary titles: Viscount Baltinglass, Baron Dacre, and Baron Teynham. [4] [5]

Upon the accession of James I, John Roper was the first of the gentry in his county to proclaim the new king, for which service he was knighted in 1616 (although according to other sources he may have already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1587) [6] and raised to the peerage as Lord Teynham on the same day. [7] His contribution of £10,000 to the new king's coffers may also have played a role in his elevation to the nobility. [8] Ned Wymarke joked that he was "Baron of Ten M", 10 thousand pound. [9] According to Gardiner, however, Roper's ennoblement was not any sort of sign of gratitude from the king; rather, it was granted (after the payment of £10,000) as a way to induce Roper to relinquish an office he held in the King's Bench. King James hoped to grant the office to his grasping favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and viewed Roper as an obstacle to the plan. [10]

The first Baron's great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Kent. The latter's third son, the eighth Baron, married, as his second wife, Anne Barrett-Lennard, 16th Baroness Dacre. His eldest son from this marriage, Charles Roper, was the father of Trevor Charles Roper, 18th Baron Dacre, and Gertrude Trevor Roper, 19th Baroness Dacre (see the Baron Dacre for more information). His youngest son from this marriage, Reverend Richard Henry Roper, was the great-great-great-grandfather of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton.

The eighth Baron was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage to Catherine Smythe, the ninth Baron. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the tenth Baron. The latter's grandson, the fourteenth Baron, assumed in 1788 by Royal licence the surname of Curzon in lieu of his patronymic but in 1813 he resumed by Royal licence his original surname of Roper in addition to that of Curzon. His great-great-grandson, the nineteenth Baron, served as Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords from 1946 to 1959. As of 2021 the title is held by the twenty-first Baron, who succeeded in that year.

Barons Teynham (1616)

The heir apparent is the present holder’s son, Henry Christopher John Ingham Alexis Roper-Curzon (b. 1986)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Crest: a lion rampant sable holding in the dexter paw a coronet or, Fox-Davies, Armorial families; As seen on several hatchments in Church of St Peter & St Paul, Lynsted, Kent
  2. 1 2 Kidd, Charles, Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015
  3. 1 2 A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1868. p. 1093.
  4. ↑ "Lord Dacre of Glanton". The Daily Telegraph (obituary). 27 January 2003. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  5. ↑ ""Lynsted with Kingsdown Society: The Roper Memorials"". Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Lynsted Church The Roper Memorials by Aymer Vallance". 1 October 2020. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  7. ↑ Ireland, William Henry (1829). England's Topographer: Or A New and Complete History of the County of Kent. G. Virtue. p. 704.
  8. ↑ Childs, Jessie "God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England"
  9. ↑ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 182.
  10. ↑ Gardiner, Samuel Rawson "History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, Vol. 3" pp. 31-34

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