{{for|the British rower|Roger Pope (rower)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} '''Roger Pope''' (died 1647) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1647. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
== Personal life == Pope was possibly the son of Thomas Pope of Shrewsbury and his wife Luciad Edwards, daughter of Thomas Edwards of Shrewsbury.
Pope married a daughter of Thomas Mytton.<ref name="Williams2">{{Citation|last=Williams|first=W.R.|title=Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales,from the earliesr times to the present day, 1541-1895 ...|page=[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030498939#page/n137/mode/1up 116]|year=1895|location=Brecknock|publisher=Priv. Print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell}}</ref>
== Career == He fought in the Parliamentarian army in the Civil War, assisting General Thomas Mytton in North Wales. In 1646 he was a colonel and was appointed governor of Holt Castle after its capture in January 1647.<ref name="Williams">{{Citation |last=Williams |first=W.R. |year=1895 |title=Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales,from the earliesr times to the present day, 1541-1895 ... |location=Brecknock |publisher=Priv. Print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell |page=[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030498939#page/n137/mode/1up 116]}}</ref>
In 1647, Pope was elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth in the Long Parliament.<ref name="Willis">{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref>
== Death == He died a few months after being elected Member of Parliament.<ref name="Williams" />
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