John Bonfoy Rooper


John Bonfoy Rooper was a British Member of Parliament.

Life

He was born the eldest son of John Rooper of Berkhampstead Castle, Hertfordshire and Abbots Ripton Hall, Huntingdonshire, and was educated at Rugby School from 1790. He matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1797, graduating B.A. in 1801, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1800. He succeeded his father in 1826.
In his youth Rooper travelled to America and became a staunch Liberal. While he was there the family lost possession of Berkhampstead Castle and retreated to Abbots Ripton. In 1831 he was elected MP for Huntingdonshire, sitting until he was defeated in 1837. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1845–1846.
Rooper died on 11 March 1855 from a domestic accident, falling over bannisters.

Family

Rooper married Harriet, the daughter and heiress of William Pott of Portman Square, Middlesex, with whom he had 5 sons and 11 daughters. He was succeeded in turn by his sons:
Other sons were Henry Godolphin and Frederic James.
Of the daughters:
Other daughters were Frances. and Caroline who married James Currie.
Rooper was great-uncle to Thomas Godolphin Rooper, writer on education: he was son of the cleric William Henry Rooper, son of Thomas Richard Rooper, also a cleric, and as the third son of John Rooper the brother of John Bonfoy Rooper. In the next generation, William Victor Trevor Rooper was son of Percy Lens Rooper, the son of Captain John Rooper of the Rifle Brigade; who was another son of Thomas Richard Rooper.