{{Short description|British Member of Parliament}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} '''John Bonfoy Rooper''' (8 August 1778 – March 1855) 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.<ref name="HoP">{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/rooper-john-1778-1855|title = Rooper, John Bonfoy (1778-1855), of Abbots Ripton Hall, Huntingdonshire|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate = 2013-03-09}}</ref> He matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1797, graduating B.A. in 1801, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1800.<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=RPR797JB|name=Rooper, John Bonfoy}}</ref> 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.<ref name="HoP"/>
Rooper died on 11 March 1855 from a domestic accident, falling over bannisters.<ref name="HoP"/><ref name="acad"/>
==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:<ref name="HoP"/>
* Bonfoy Rooper (1827–1869); and *the Rev. Plummer Pott Rooper (1828–1881), rector of Abbots Ripton.<ref name="HoP"/> He married Georgiana Thornhill, daughter of George Thornhill.<ref>{{cite book|last=Walford|first=Edward|title=The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9EkzFlBgz0C&pg=PA836|accessdate=11 October 2018|year=1869|publisher=R. Hardwicke|page=836}}</ref>
Other sons were Henry Godolphin and Frederic James.<ref name="Burke1871">{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Bernard|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmh2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1188|accessdate=11 October 2018|year=1871|publisher=Harrison|page=1188}}</ref>
Of the daughters:
*Harriet Emily, married in 1834 the Rev. George Cheere.<ref>{{acad|id=CHR822G|name=Cheere, George}}</ref> *Louisa, married in 1845 Thomas Leventhorpe.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0xA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA523|year=1845|publisher=A. Dodd and A. Smith|page=523}}</ref> Rooper Leventhorpe (1850–1940) was their son.<ref>{{acad|id=LVNP868R|name=Leventhorpe, Rooper}}</ref> *Selina Mary Anna, the fourth, married in 1846 William Hobson Moubray R.N.<ref>{{Cite NBD1849|wstitle=Moubray, William Hobson |pages=794–795}}</ref> She died in 1855.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0BDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA334|year=1855|publisher=R. Newton|page=334}}</ref> His second wife, from 1857, was Adeline Hannah Babington.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Sir Bernard|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H65CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA955|accessdate=12 October 2018|year=1871|publisher=Harrison|page=955}}</ref> *Philippa married in 1858 John Chester (later John St Leger) of Park Hill.<ref>Réamonn Ó Muirí, ''Lt John Lindley St. Leger, United Irishman'', Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society Vol. 11, No. 1 (1983/1984), pp. 133-201, at p. 181. Published by: Cumann Seanchais Ard Mhacha/Armagh Diocesan Historical Society. DOI: 10.2307/29740990 {{JSTOR|29740990}}</ref> *Constance, married the Rev. Samuel King (c.1825–1899).<ref>{{acad|id=KN843S|name=King, Samuel}}</ref> *Georgiana, the youngest, married William Stuart Knox.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw143688/Georgiana-Knox-ne-Rooper|title=NPG Ax50701; Georgiana Knox (née Rooper) - Portrait - National Portrait Gallery|work=National Portrait Gallery, London|accessdate=11 October 2018}}</ref>
Other daughters were Frances. and Caroline who married James Currie.<ref name="Burke1871"/>
Rooper was great-uncle to Thomas Godolphin Rooper, writer on education: he was the son of the cleric William Henry Rooper, son of Thomas Richard Rooper (1782–1865), also a cleric, and as the third son of John Rooper the brother of John Bonfoy Rooper.<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Rooper, Thomas Godolphin|volume=3}}</ref><ref>s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Rooper, William Henry</ref><ref>{{acad|id=RPR800TR|name=Rooper, Thomas Richard}}</ref> In the next generation, William Victor Trevor Rooper was the son of Percy Lens Rooper, the son of Captain John Rooper (1809–1892) of the Rifle Brigade;<ref>{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families|edition=7th|year=1929–30|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|location=London|page=1678|volume=2}}</ref> who was another son of Thomas Richard Rooper.<ref name="Burke1871"/>
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