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'''Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham''' [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|DSC]] (6 May 1896 – 5 May 1972) a british [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]] and member of the House of Roper and House of Curzon, was a career officer of the [[Royal Navy]] and an [[Peerage of England|English peer]], with a seat from 1936 in the [[House of Lords]], where from 1946 to 1959 he was Deputy to the [[Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda|Earl of Drogheda]] and then to [[William Lewis, 3rd Baron Merthyr|Lord Merthyr]] as [[Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords|Chairman of Committees]].
'''Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham''' [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|DSC]] (6 May 1896 – 5 May 1972) a british [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]] and member of the House of Roper and House of Curzon, was a career officer of the [[Royal Navy]] and an [[Peerage of England|English peer]], with a seat from 1936 in the [[House of Lords]], where from 1946 to 1959 he was Deputy to the [[Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda|Earl of Drogheda]] and then to [[William Lewis, 3rd Baron Merthyr|Lord Merthyr]] as [[Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords|Chairman of Committees]].


The Roper family is an English [[Nobility|aristocratic family]] that can be traced back to 1066 following the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman Conquest]] by residing in [[Derbyshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.houseofnames.com/roper-family-crest#cite_note-1|title=Roper History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms|access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref> Members of the family have held three hereditary titles: [[Viscount Baltinglass|Viscount of Baltinglass]], [[Baron Dacre]] of [[Glanton]], and [[Baron Teynham|Baron of Teynham]].<ref name="ThomasR">{{Cite web|url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p7376.htm#c73757.1|title= Person Page – 7376 (entry #73757)|access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref><ref name="telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1420131/Lord-Dacre-of-Glanton.html|title=Lord Dacre of Glanton|date=27 January 2003|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=1 September 2020|type=obituary}}</ref><ref name="LKS">[http://www.lynsted-society.co.uk/Library/Books/Roper_Memorials_Vallance.html "Lynsted with Kingsdown Society: The Roper Memorials"]</ref>
The Roper family is an English [[Nobility|aristocratic family]] that can be traced back to 1066 following the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman Conquest]] by residing in [[Derbyshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.houseofnames.com/roper-family-crest#cite_note-1|title=Roper History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms|access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref> Members of the family have held three hereditary titles: Viscount Baltinglass, Baron Dacre of Glanton, and Baron Teynham.<ref name="ThomasR">{{Cite web|url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p7376.htm#c73757.1|title= Person Page – 7376 (entry #73757)|access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref><ref name="telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1420131/Lord-Dacre-of-Glanton.html|title=Lord Dacre of Glanton|date=27 January 2003|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=1 September 2020|type=obituary}}</ref><ref name="LKS">[http://www.lynsted-society.co.uk/Library/Books/Roper_Memorials_Vallance.html "Lynsted with Kingsdown Society: The Roper Memorials"]</ref>


The Curzon family is an English [[Nobility|aristocratic family]] tracing back to 1200s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.houseofnames.com/Curzon+-family-crest|title=Curzon History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms|access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref> Members of the family have held 14 hereditary titles such as: [[Viscount Scarsdale|Marquess Curzon of Kedleston]],<ref>David Gilmour, "Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32680, accessed 24 August 2020] {{DOI|10.1093/ref:odnb/32680}}</ref> [[Earl Howe]],<ref name=":EarlHowe">{{cite web|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/learning/biographies/richardwilliampenncurzon-howe,1stearlhowe(1796-1870).aspx|title=Manuscripts and Special Collections|publisher=University of Nottingham|accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Earl Curzon of Kedleston]],<ref name=":Curzon">{{cite web|url= http://www.europeanheraldry.org/united-kingdom/families/families-f/house-curzon/|title= House of Curzon|publisher= European Heraldry |accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Viscount Curzon]],<ref name=":ViscountC">{{cite web|url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/511d6874-ae2c-406b-a1ae-2eb66db9794f|title= Rt Hon Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe and Viscount Curzon of Gopsall,...|publisher=Discovery National Archives|accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Viscount Scarsdale]],<ref name=":Curzon" /><ref name=":0">Hall, S. C. 1800-1889. (2016). ''Stately homes of england.'' Place of publication not identified: Nabu Press.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/index.html |title=Scarsdale, Viscount (UK, 1911) |work=Cracroft's Peerage |accessdate=24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Earl Howe|Viscounts Howe]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12290 |date=27 April 1782 |page=1}}</ref> [[Curzon of Kedleston]],<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117054 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Covert-Cutts', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 338-365. Date accessed: 24 August 2020]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Curzon|title= Lord Curzon |website= www.britannica.com}}</ref> [[Baron Scarsdale]],<ref name=":BaronScar">{{cite web|url= https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/kedleston-hall/features/the-history-of-kedleston-hall|title= Explore Kedleston Hall - from Rome to India|publisher=National Trust |accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Baron Ravensdale]],<ref name=":Curzon" /> Manor of Curzon,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVY5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sir+John+Curzon%22&pg=PA297|title=Peerage of England: genealogical, biographical, and historical. Greatly augmented and continued to the present time|first1=Arthur|last1=Collins|first2=Sir Egerton|last2=Brydges|date=February 16, 1812|publisher=F.C. and J. Rivington [and others]|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp338-365|title=Covert-Cutts &#124; British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Baron Howe]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13009 |date=22 July 1788 |page=349}}</ref> [[Earl Howe|Baron Curzon]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13692 |date=9 August 1794 |page=818}}</ref> [[Mosley baronets|Baronet Mosley]],<ref name=":Burkes">{{cite book |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th |volume=2 |page=1987 |location=Wilmington, Delaware |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. |year=2003 |url=http://thepeerage.com/p5006.htm |accessdate=24 August 2020}}</ref> and [[Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet|Baronet Kedleston Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/curzon-nathaniel-1676-1758|title=CURZON, Nathaniel (?1676-1758), of Kedleston, Derbys.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref>
The Curzon family is an English [[Nobility|aristocratic family]] tracing back to 1200s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.houseofnames.com/Curzon+-family-crest|title=Curzon History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms|access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref> Members of the family have held 14 hereditary titles such as: [[Viscount Scarsdale|Marquess Curzon of Kedleston]],<ref>David Gilmour, "Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32680, accessed 24 August 2020] {{DOI|10.1093/ref:odnb/32680}}</ref> [[Earl Howe]],<ref name=":EarlHowe">{{cite web|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/learning/biographies/richardwilliampenncurzon-howe,1stearlhowe(1796-1870).aspx|title=Manuscripts and Special Collections|publisher=University of Nottingham|accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Earl Curzon of Kedleston]],<ref name=":Curzon">{{cite web|url= http://www.europeanheraldry.org/united-kingdom/families/families-f/house-curzon/|title= House of Curzon|publisher= European Heraldry |accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Viscount Curzon]],<ref name=":ViscountC">{{cite web|url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/511d6874-ae2c-406b-a1ae-2eb66db9794f|title= Rt Hon Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe and Viscount Curzon of Gopsall,...|publisher=Discovery National Archives|accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Viscount Scarsdale]],<ref name=":Curzon" /><ref name=":0">Hall, S. C. 1800-1889. (2016). ''Stately homes of england.'' Place of publication not identified: Nabu Press.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/index.html |title=Scarsdale, Viscount (UK, 1911) |work=Cracroft's Peerage |accessdate=24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Earl Howe|Viscounts Howe]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12290 |date=27 April 1782 |page=1}}</ref> [[Curzon of Kedleston]],<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117054 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Covert-Cutts', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 338-365. Date accessed: 24 August 2020]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Curzon|title= Lord Curzon |website= www.britannica.com}}</ref> [[Baron Scarsdale]],<ref name=":BaronScar">{{cite web|url= https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/kedleston-hall/features/the-history-of-kedleston-hall|title= Explore Kedleston Hall - from Rome to India|publisher=National Trust |accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref> [[Baron Ravensdale]],<ref name=":Curzon" /> Manor of Curzon,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVY5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sir+John+Curzon%22&pg=PA297|title=Peerage of England: genealogical, biographical, and historical. Greatly augmented and continued to the present time|first1=Arthur|last1=Collins|first2=Sir Egerton|last2=Brydges|date=February 16, 1812|publisher=F.C. and J. Rivington [and others]|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp338-365|title=Covert-Cutts &#124; British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Baron Howe]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13009 |date=22 July 1788 |page=349}}</ref> [[Earl Howe|Baron Curzon]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13692 |date=9 August 1794 |page=818}}</ref> [[Mosley baronets|Baronet Mosley]],<ref name=":Burkes">{{cite book |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th |volume=2 |page=1987 |location=Wilmington, Delaware |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. |year=2003 |url=http://thepeerage.com/p5006.htm |accessdate=24 August 2020}}</ref> and [[Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet|Baronet Kedleston Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/curzon-nathaniel-1676-1758|title=CURZON, Nathaniel (?1676-1758), of Kedleston, Derbys.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 24 August 2020}}</ref>
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==Career==
==Career==
[[File:HMS Minotaur USNHC NH 60086.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Minotaur'']]
[[File:HMS Minotaur USNHC NH 60086.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Minotaur'']]
The elder son of [[Henry Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron Teynham]], by his marriage to Mabel Wilkinson, Roper-Curzon was educated at the [[Royal Naval College, Osborne]], and the [[Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]]. He saw active service during the [[World War I|First World War]], winning both the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|Distinguished Service Cross]] and the [[Distinguished Service Order]], serving with the [[Grand Fleet]] as Staff Signal Officer on [[HMS Minotaur (1906)|HMS ''Minotaur'']]. In 1936 he succeeded his father as [[Baron Teynham|Lord Teynham]]. During the [[World War II|Second World War]] he was Naval Control Service Officer for the [[Port of London]], after which he commanded ships, including [[Depot ship#Minesweeper depot ships|HMS ''Ambitious'' (F169)]] on minesweeping duties for the invasion of Europe in 1944. He retired from the navy after the war with the rank of [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]].<ref name=burke>Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, volume 3 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), pp. 3880–3881</ref>
The elder son of Henry Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron Teynham, by his marriage to Mabel Wilkinson, Roper-Curzon was educated at the [[Royal Naval College, Osborne]], and the [[Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]]. He saw active service during the [[World War I|First World War]], winning both the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|Distinguished Service Cross]] and the [[Distinguished Service Order]], serving with the [[Grand Fleet]] as Staff Signal Officer on [[HMS Minotaur (1906)|HMS ''Minotaur'']]. In 1936 he succeeded his father as Lord Teynham. During the [[World War II|Second World War]] he was Naval Control Service Officer for the [[Port of London]], after which he commanded ships, including [[Depot ship#Minesweeper depot ships|HMS ''Ambitious'' (F169)]] on minesweeping duties for the invasion of Europe in 1944. He retired from the navy after the war with the rank of [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]].<ref name=burke>Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, volume 3 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), pp. 3880–3881</ref>


In the [[House of Lords]], Teynham served as a Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1946 to 1959,<ref>''Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1968'', p. 280</ref> and when the [[House of Lords Yacht Club]] was established in 1949, he was its first vice-commodore.<ref>''Shipbuilding and Shipping Record'', vol. 73 (1949), p. 38</ref> Outside parliament he was a Younger Brother of [[Trinity House]], a member of the Council of the [[Navy League of Great Britain|Navy League]], a Governor of the [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]], and a director of [[Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks|Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks, Ltd.]], [[Coast Lines|Coast Lines Ltd]], and other companies.<ref>''Transport Management: the British Journal of Trade and Transport'', Volumes 26-27 (1952), p. 29</ref>
In the [[House of Lords]], Teynham served as a Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1946 to 1959,<ref>''Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1968'', p. 280</ref> and when the [[House of Lords Yacht Club]] was established in 1949, he was its first vice-commodore.<ref>''Shipbuilding and Shipping Record'', vol. 73 (1949), p. 38</ref> Outside parliament he was a Younger Brother of [[Trinity House]], a member of the Council of the [[Navy League of Great Britain|Navy League]], a Governor of the [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]], and a director of [[Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks|Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks, Ltd.]], [[Coast Lines|Coast Lines Ltd]], and other companies.<ref>''Transport Management: the British Journal of Trade and Transport'', Volumes 26-27 (1952), p. 29</ref>


==Family estates==
==Family estates==
The estates owned by the Roper family in the [[United Kingdom]] include Hyde and Charlton, [[Bradford]], [[Pylewell Park]], Candelwick, Galway Estates and Trimdon Estates. Additional estates include [[Blind Veterans UK|Saint Dunstans]], Chestfeild, Cheselherst, Brambiltighe, and Modingham among others.<ref>{{cite news|title= Roper, M. (2015). Properties owned by the Roper family |url=http://www.roperld.com/RoperProperties.pdf|publisher= Genealogy Web Page of L. David Roper|date=December 21, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/213352/holly-anne-marie-roper-curzon|title=Holly Anne-marie Roper-Curzon - The Law Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stately-homes-sell-off-the-family-silver-2jsfwdxpwzp|title=Stately homes sell off the family silver|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref> Kent Estates were acquired in 15th century by [[John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham|Lord John Roper]].<ref name="Kent">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ltUvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA704&lpg=PA704 "England's Topographer: A New and Complete History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2"] pg. 704</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/74477/Roper-Curzon-Lord-Teynham-Christopher-John-Henry.htm|title=Roper-Curzon, Lord Teynham, Christopher John Henry - TracesOfWar.com|website=www.tracesofwar.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48540494|title=01 Jul 1892 - ACTION AGAINST THE HON. W. ROPER-CURZON. - Trove}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegracetales.com/my-morning-routine-victoria-roper-curzon-co-founder-of-elfie/|title=my morning routine: Victoria Roper-Curzon, co-founder of Elfie|date=June 22, 2014}}</ref> Galway estates (181 acres) were acquired in 19th century by Sir Henry Roper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7564543/|title=Ben Roper Curzon|website=IMDb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_birth/?name=_Roper+curzon&name_x=1_1|title=Roper Curzon - Ancestry.com|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/story/meet-our-trustees-henrietta-roper-curzon|title=Meet our Trustees: Henrietta Roper-Curzon|website=Blue Cross}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-londoner-time-running-out-for-big-ben-foundry-a4286166.html|title=The Londoner: Time running out for Big Ben foundry|date=November 13, 2019|website=Evening Standard}}</ref>
The estates owned by the Roper family in the [[United Kingdom]] include Hyde and Charlton, [[Bradford]], Pylewell Park, Candelwick, Galway Estates and Trimdon Estates. Additional estates include [[Blind Veterans UK|Saint Dunstans]], Chestfeild, Cheselherst, Brambiltighe, and Modingham among others.<ref>{{cite news|title= Roper, M. (2015). Properties owned by the Roper family |url=http://www.roperld.com/RoperProperties.pdf|publisher= Genealogy Web Page of L. David Roper|date=December 21, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/person/213352/holly-anne-marie-roper-curzon|title=Holly Anne-marie Roper-Curzon - The Law Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stately-homes-sell-off-the-family-silver-2jsfwdxpwzp|title=Stately homes sell off the family silver|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref> Kent Estates were acquired in 15th century by John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham.<ref name="Kent">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ltUvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA704&lpg=PA704 "England's Topographer: A New and Complete History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2"] pg. 704</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/74477/Roper-Curzon-Lord-Teynham-Christopher-John-Henry.htm|title=Roper-Curzon, Lord Teynham, Christopher John Henry - TracesOfWar.com|website=www.tracesofwar.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48540494|title=01 Jul 1892 - ACTION AGAINST THE HON. W. ROPER-CURZON. - Trove}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegracetales.com/my-morning-routine-victoria-roper-curzon-co-founder-of-elfie/|title=my morning routine: Victoria Roper-Curzon, co-founder of Elfie|date=June 22, 2014}}</ref> Galway estates (181 acres) were acquired in 19th century by Sir Henry Roper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7564543/|title=Ben Roper Curzon|website=IMDb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_birth/?name=_Roper+curzon&name_x=1_1|title=Roper Curzon - Ancestry.com|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/story/meet-our-trustees-henrietta-roper-curzon|title=Meet our Trustees: Henrietta Roper-Curzon|website=Blue Cross}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-londoner-time-running-out-for-big-ben-foundry-a4286166.html|title=The Londoner: Time running out for Big Ben foundry|date=November 13, 2019|website=Evening Standard}}</ref>


Among the estates held by the Curzon family include the [[Kedleston Hall]] which is an estate situated in [[Derbyshire|Derbyshire’s Kedlestone]], roughly 6 kilometres northwest of Derby. This estate functions as the seat to the family of Curzon.<ref name=":1">Montague-Smith, P. W. (2015). “Debretts peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage: with Her Majestys Royal Warrant Holders.” Kingston upon Thames, Surrey: KellysDirectories Ltd.</ref> Upon the death of the second [[Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale|Viscount Scarsdale, Richard Curzon]], [[Kedleston Hall]] remained quite expensive thus compelling his cousin ([[Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale|Francis Curzon]]), to forward the property to the state in place of death duties.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/aristocrat-who-lives-huge-kedleston-9022680 |title=Aristocrat who lives at huge Kedleston Hall jailed after driving while banned for the third time in 13 months |date=11 October 2016 |newspaper=Daily Mirror |first=Aly |last=Walsh |accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref>
Among the estates held by the Curzon family include the [[Kedleston Hall]] which is an estate situated in [[Derbyshire|Derbyshire’s Kedlestone]], roughly 6 kilometres northwest of Derby. This estate functions as the seat to the family of Curzon.<ref name=":1">Montague-Smith, P. W. (2015). “Debretts peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage: with Her Majestys Royal Warrant Holders.” Kingston upon Thames, Surrey: KellysDirectories Ltd.</ref> Upon the death of the second [[Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale|Viscount Scarsdale, Richard Curzon]], [[Kedleston Hall]] remained quite expensive thus compelling his cousin ([[Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale|Francis Curzon]]), to forward the property to the state in place of death duties.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/aristocrat-who-lives-huge-kedleston-9022680 |title=Aristocrat who lives at huge Kedleston Hall jailed after driving while banned for the third time in 13 months |date=11 October 2016 |newspaper=Daily Mirror |first=Aly |last=Walsh |accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
On 19 October 1927, Roper-Curzon married Elspeth Grace Whitaker, a daughter of William Ingham Whitaker by his marriage to Hilda Guilhermina Dundas, a daughter of [[Viscount Melville|Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville]] (1843–1926). They had two sons, [[John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, 20th Baron Teynham|Lord John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon]], later [[Baron Teynham|20th Baron Teynham]] (born 1928) and Michael Henry (born 1931), and were divorced in 1955. On 11 February 1955 he married secondly Anne Rita, a daughter of Captain L. C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe and a grand-daughter of [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] [[Assheton Curzon-Howe|Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe]]. They had two daughters, Henrietta Margaret Fleur, born in 1955, and Holly Anne-Marie, 1963.<ref name=burke/>
On 19 October 1927, Roper-Curzon married Elspeth Grace Whitaker, a daughter of William Ingham Whitaker by his marriage to Hilda Guilhermina Dundas, a daughter of [[Viscount Melville|Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville]] (1843–1926). They had two sons, Lord John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, later 20th Baron Teynham (born 1928) and Michael Henry (born 1931), and were divorced in 1955. On 11 February 1955 he married secondly Anne Rita, a daughter of Captain L. C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe and a grand-daughter of [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] [[Assheton Curzon-Howe|Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe]]. They had two daughters, Henrietta Margaret Fleur, born in 1955, and Holly Anne-Marie, 1963.<ref name=burke/>


In 1988, his son [[John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, 20th Baron Teynham|Lord John Roper-Curzon]] and his wife Lady Elizabeth moved to [[Pylewell Park]] and spent nearly a decade before leaving it to his eldest son David John Henry Ingham Roper-Curzon, who lives there with his son Harry Roper-Curzon and other children.<ref name=burke/><ref>{{cite news|title=Interiors: Pylewell Park in Hampshire|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/interiors/10958852/Interiors-Pylewell-Park-in-Hampshire.html|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=12 July 2014}}</ref>
In 1988, his son Lord John Roper-Curzon and his wife Lady Elizabeth moved to Pylewell Park and spent nearly a decade before leaving it to his eldest son David John Henry Ingham Roper-Curzon, who lives there with his son Harry Roper-Curzon and other children.<ref name=burke/><ref>{{cite news|title=Interiors: Pylewell Park in Hampshire|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/interiors/10958852/Interiors-Pylewell-Park-in-Hampshire.html|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=12 July 2014}}</ref>


==Modern house==
==Modern house==
In 1788, [[Baron Teynham|Henry Francis Roper, the 14th Baron of Teynham]] inherited his cousin’s John Barnewall Curzon’s wealth and estate at Water Perry, [[Northamptonshire]] when he died. Henry legally added his name to his by Royal Licence and joined House of Roper and House of Curzon in his honour and became Henry Francis Roper-Curzon. Today, his descendants such as [[John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, 20th Baron Teynham|John Roper-Curzon]], David Roper-Curzon, and Harry Roper-Curzon still go by both names.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p16040.htm|title= Person Page - 16040(entry #160396)|access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref>
In 1788, Henry Francis Roper, the 14th Baron of Teynham inherited his cousin’s John Barnewall Curzon’s wealth and estate at Water Perry, [[Northamptonshire]] when he died. Henry legally added his name to his by Royal Licence and joined House of Roper and House of Curzon in his honour and became Henry Francis Roper-Curzon. Today, his descendants such as John Roper-Curzon, David Roper-Curzon, and Harry Roper-Curzon still go by both names.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p16040.htm|title= Person Page - 16040(entry #160396)|access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref>


==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp66233/christopher-john-henry-roper-curzon-19th-baron-teynham Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham] at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London]], web site


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Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham DSO DSC (6 May 1896 – 5 May 1972) a british aristocrat and member of the House of Roper and House of Curzon, was a career officer of the Royal Navy and an English peer, with a seat from 1936 in the House of Lords, where from 1946 to 1959 he was Deputy to the Earl of Drogheda and then to Lord Merthyr as Chairman of Committees.

The Roper family is an English aristocratic family that can be traced back to 1066 following the Norman Conquest by residing in Derbyshire.[1] Members of the family have held three hereditary titles: Viscount Baltinglass, Baron Dacre of Glanton, and Baron Teynham.[2][3][4]

The Curzon family is an English aristocratic family tracing back to 1200s.[5] Members of the family have held 14 hereditary titles such as: Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,[6] Earl Howe,[7] Earl Curzon of Kedleston,[8] Viscount Curzon,[9] Viscount Scarsdale,[8][10][11] Viscounts Howe,[12] Curzon of Kedleston,[13][14] Baron Scarsdale,[15] Baron Ravensdale,[8] Manor of Curzon,[16][17] Baron Howe,[18] Baron Curzon,[19] Baronet Mosley,[20] and Baronet Kedleston Hall.[21]

Career

HMS Minotaur

The elder son of Henry Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron Teynham, by his marriage to Mabel Wilkinson, Roper-Curzon was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He saw active service during the First World War, winning both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Order, serving with the Grand Fleet as Staff Signal Officer on HMS Minotaur. In 1936 he succeeded his father as Lord Teynham. During the Second World War he was Naval Control Service Officer for the Port of London, after which he commanded ships, including HMS Ambitious (F169) on minesweeping duties for the invasion of Europe in 1944. He retired from the navy after the war with the rank of Captain.[22]

In the House of Lords, Teynham served as a Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1946 to 1959,[23] and when the House of Lords Yacht Club was established in 1949, he was its first vice-commodore.[24] Outside parliament he was a Younger Brother of Trinity House, a member of the Council of the Navy League, a Governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a director of Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks, Ltd., Coast Lines Ltd, and other companies.[25]

Family estates

The estates owned by the Roper family in the United Kingdom include Hyde and Charlton, Bradford, Pylewell Park, Candelwick, Galway Estates and Trimdon Estates. Additional estates include Saint Dunstans, Chestfeild, Cheselherst, Brambiltighe, and Modingham among others.[26][27][28] Kent Estates were acquired in 15th century by John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham.[29][30][31][32] Galway estates (181 acres) were acquired in 19th century by Sir Henry Roper.[33][34][35][36]

Among the estates held by the Curzon family include the Kedleston Hall which is an estate situated in Derbyshire’s Kedlestone, roughly 6 kilometres northwest of Derby. This estate functions as the seat to the family of Curzon.[37] Upon the death of the second Viscount Scarsdale, Richard Curzon, Kedleston Hall remained quite expensive thus compelling his cousin (Francis Curzon), to forward the property to the state in place of death duties.[38]

Personal life

On 19 October 1927, Roper-Curzon married Elspeth Grace Whitaker, a daughter of William Ingham Whitaker by his marriage to Hilda Guilhermina Dundas, a daughter of Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville (1843–1926). They had two sons, Lord John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, later 20th Baron Teynham (born 1928) and Michael Henry (born 1931), and were divorced in 1955. On 11 February 1955 he married secondly Anne Rita, a daughter of Captain L. C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe and a grand-daughter of Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe. They had two daughters, Henrietta Margaret Fleur, born in 1955, and Holly Anne-Marie, 1963.[22]

In 1988, his son Lord John Roper-Curzon and his wife Lady Elizabeth moved to Pylewell Park and spent nearly a decade before leaving it to his eldest son David John Henry Ingham Roper-Curzon, who lives there with his son Harry Roper-Curzon and other children.[22][39]

Modern house

In 1788, Henry Francis Roper, the 14th Baron of Teynham inherited his cousin’s John Barnewall Curzon’s wealth and estate at Water Perry, Northamptonshire when he died. Henry legally added his name to his by Royal Licence and joined House of Roper and House of Curzon in his honour and became Henry Francis Roper-Curzon. Today, his descendants such as John Roper-Curzon, David Roper-Curzon, and Harry Roper-Curzon still go by both names.[40]

Notes

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  2. ^ "Person Page – 7376 (entry #73757)". Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Lord Dacre of Glanton". The Daily Telegraph (obituary). 27 January 2003. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Lynsted with Kingsdown Society: The Roper Memorials"
  5. ^ "Curzon History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms". Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  6. ^ David Gilmour, "Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 24 August 2020 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32680
  7. ^ "Manuscripts and Special Collections". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  8. ^ a b c "House of Curzon". European Heraldry. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Rt Hon Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe and Viscount Curzon of Gopsall,..." Discovery National Archives. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  10. ^ Hall, S. C. 1800-1889. (2016). Stately homes of england. Place of publication not identified: Nabu Press.
  11. ^ "Scarsdale, Viscount (UK, 1911)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  12. ^ "No. 12290". The London Gazette. 27 April 1782. p. 1.
  13. ^ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Covert-Cutts', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 338-365. Date accessed: 24 August 2020
  14. ^ "Lord Curzon". www.britannica.com.
  15. ^ "Explore Kedleston Hall - from Rome to India". National Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  16. ^ Collins, Arthur; Brydges, Sir Egerton (February 16, 1812). "Peerage of England: genealogical, biographical, and historical. Greatly augmented and continued to the present time". F.C. and J. Rivington [and others] – via Google Books.
  17. ^ "Covert-Cutts | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  18. ^ "No. 13009". The London Gazette. 22 July 1788. p. 349.
  19. ^ "No. 13692". The London Gazette. 9 August 1794. p. 818.
  20. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol. 2 (107th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 1987. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  21. ^ "CURZON, Nathaniel (?1676-1758), of Kedleston, Derbys". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  22. ^ a b c Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 3 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), pp. 3880–3881
  23. ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1968, p. 280
  24. ^ Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, vol. 73 (1949), p. 38
  25. ^ Transport Management: the British Journal of Trade and Transport, Volumes 26-27 (1952), p. 29
  26. ^ "Roper, M. (2015). Properties owned by the Roper family" (PDF). Genealogy Web Page of L. David Roper. December 21, 2005.
  27. ^ "Holly Anne-marie Roper-Curzon - The Law Society".
  28. ^ "Stately homes sell off the family silver" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  29. ^ "England's Topographer: A New and Complete History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2" pg. 704
  30. ^ "Roper-Curzon, Lord Teynham, Christopher John Henry - TracesOfWar.com". www.tracesofwar.com.
  31. ^ "01 Jul 1892 - ACTION AGAINST THE HON. W. ROPER-CURZON. - Trove".
  32. ^ "my morning routine: Victoria Roper-Curzon, co-founder of Elfie". June 22, 2014.
  33. ^ "Ben Roper Curzon". IMDb.
  34. ^ "Roper Curzon - Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com.
  35. ^ "Meet our Trustees: Henrietta Roper-Curzon". Blue Cross.
  36. ^ "The Londoner: Time running out for Big Ben foundry". Evening Standard. November 13, 2019.
  37. ^ Montague-Smith, P. W. (2015). “Debretts peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage: with Her Majestys Royal Warrant Holders.” Kingston upon Thames, Surrey: KellysDirectories Ltd.
  38. ^ Walsh, Aly (11 October 2016). "Aristocrat who lives at huge Kedleston Hall jailed after driving while banned for the third time in 13 months". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  39. ^ "Interiors: Pylewell Park in Hampshire". The Daily Telegraph. 12 July 2014.
  40. ^ "Person Page - 16040(entry #160396)". Retrieved September 1, 2020.
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