Baron Teynham, of Teynham in the County of Kent. John Roper served as Lord Lieutenant of Kent. The latter's third son, married as his second wife, Anne Barrett-Lennard. His eldest son from this marriage, Charles Roper, was the father of Trevor Charles Roper and Gertrude Trevor Roper. His youngest son from this marriage, Reverend Richard Henry Roper, was the great-great-great-grandfather of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.
The eighth Baron was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage to Catherine Smythe. 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, served as Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1946 to 1959. As of 2014[update] the title is held by the latter's son, the twentieth Baron, who succeeded in 1972.
