Christopher Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham

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 of Baltinglass, Baron Dacre of Glanton, and Baron of 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 Lord John Roper.[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]

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