ROPER, John (d.c. 1697)

Little can be established with certainty about Teynham’s life. His date of birth is unknown but he was probably still underage when he joined his father in exile following the overthrow of James II. He seems to have succeeded to the peerage shortly after. According to Kirk he died the same year as his father, but this is contradicted by other sources. J. Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics in the Eighteenth Century, 202. On 31 Mar. 1690 and again on 2 Nov. 1691 a Lord Teynham, presumably this one, was noted underage at a call of the House. It may also have been this Lord Teynham who was referred to by the Jacobite defector William Fuller as one of those said to have signed the address to the French king seeking his assistance for the restoration of James II, though Fuller’s information has, of course, to be treated with caution. Grey, x. 204. Teynham may have been at Namur at the time of his death. He was succeeded in the peerage by his equally obscure brother, Christopher.