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  • 'Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham
  • 'M, #30027, b. circa 1676, d. 16 May 1723
  • Last Edited=2 Dec 2010
  • ' Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham was born circa 1676.1 He was the son of Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham and Hon. Elizabeth Browne.1 He married, firstly, Catherine Smythe, daughter of Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford and Mary Porter, on 25 January 1703/4. He married, secondly, Mary Gage, daughter of Sir John Gage, 4th Bt. and Mary Stanley, on 22 January 1715/16.2 He married, thirdly, Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre, daughter of Thomas Lennard, 1st and last Earl of Essex and Lady Anne Palmer, in March 1717/18.3 He died on 16 May 1723.
  • ' He gained the title of 8th Baron Teynham.
  • 'Children of Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham and Catherine Smythe
    • 1.Henry Roper, 10th Baron Teynham+ d. 21 Apr 1781
    • 2.Anne Roper
    • 3.Philip Roper, 9th Baron Teynham b. 28 Feb 1707, d. 13 Jun 1727
  • 'Children of Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham and Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre
    • 1.Hon. Anna Maria Roper+ b. 20 Aug 1719, d. 1782
    • 2.Hon. Charles Roper+4 b. 21 May 1721, d. 4 Feb 1754
    • 3.Rev. Hon. Richard Henry Roper+ b. Nov 1723, d. Nov 1810
  • Citations
  • 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 683. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  • 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1500. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  • 3.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 1181.
  • 4.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 1014.
  • http://thepeerage.com/p3003.htm#i30027
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  • Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex (25 February 1661-2 – 16 May 1721-2), formerly Lady Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, was the eldest daughter of Barbara Palmer née Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and most likely Charles II of England or Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. ....
  • Anne's husband the Earl of Sussex was a "popular but extravagant man"[5] who, by extravagance and losses by gambling, had to sell the estate of Herstmonceaux and others. Lord and Lady Sussex separated in 1688. She was widowed in 1715. ....
  • The children of her union with Sussex were two sons, who died in infancy; and two daughters, who lived to adulthood, co-heirs of the Barony Dacre:[6]
    • 1.Barbara Lennard: born 12 July 1676 at Westminster, London; died 1741 at Paris. Married Charles Skelton, Esq., Lieutenant-General in the French service, and Grand Croix de St. Louis. Died without issue.
    • 2.Charles Lennard: born 25 May 1682 at Windsor Castle; died 13 March 1684. Lord Dacre.
    • 3.Henry Lennard: born about 1683 at Herstmonceaux, Sussex; died in infancy.
    • '4.Anne Lennard: born 17 August 1684 at Sussex; died 26 June 1755 at London. 16th Baroness Dacre in her own right. Married thrice;[7]
    • (1) First, to Richard Barrett-Lennard, Esq. (died 1716), son of Dacre Barrett-Lennard and his wife Jane, eldest daughter of Arthur Chichester, the second Earl of Donegal. Died a few months after his marriage to the Lady Anne in 1716, leaving his wife with child. Their son was Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (1717 – 12 January 1786), who died without issue.
    • '(2) Secondly, to Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham (died 16 May 1723). Had, among other children', Charles, who m. Gertrude, sister and co-heir of John Trevor, esq. of Glynd, in Sussex, and left at his decease, in 1754, ....
    • (3) Thirdly, to Roger Moore, Esq., fifth son of Henry, Earl of Drogheda, in Ireland, by whom she had one son, Henry. ....
  • References
  • 1.^ June Ferguson's Royalty GED
  • 2.^ From Burnet's History of his Own Times, quoted in G. Steinman Steinman's A Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, 1871, page 26.
  • 3.^ Cunningham and Goodwin's The Story of Nell Gwyn, 1903, page 196.
  • 4.^ "Memoirs of the Court of England"
  • 5.^ From John Heneage Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, 1855, page 170.
  • 6.^ [1]
  • 7.^ From Booker, von Alvensleben, W Owen's The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1790, pages 372-374.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lennard,_Countess_of_Sussex
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