Roger Taverner
Roger Taverner of Upminster, Essex was an English administrator and Member of Parliament for Newport, Cornwall.Life
He was the eldest of Richard Taverner's younger brothers. He was a surveyor and writer, said by Anthony Wood in Athenae Oxonienses to have studied at Cambridge but not graduated, though university records do not confirm this.
Probably in the 1540s he became deputy to Sir Francis Jobson as surveyor for the Court of Augmentations, and later he was employed by the exchequer until 1573. He was elected to Parliament in 1555 as a member for Newport-juxta-Launceston, Cornwall. He was also a writer of tracts on economic issues, such as ‘Remedies … of derth of victualles’, a similar work sent to her two years previously, and – unprinted, but more influential – his 'Arte of surveyinge' of 1565.
With his wife, a member of the Hulcote family, he had three sons, one of whom, John, Wood reports became a surveyor.
