Category:William Roper (biographer)

**William Roper**
	English biographer of his father-in-law, Sir Thomas More Porträtt av William Roper målat av Hans Holbein den yngre på 1530-talet.
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Date of birth	c. 1496; Kent
Date of death	4 January 1578; London
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of England;
Educated at	Lincoln's Inn;
Occupation	writer; biographer; politician;
Position held	Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England; Member of the 1529-36 Parliament; Member of the 1545-47 Parliament; Member of the 1547-1552 Parliament; Member of the October 1553 Parliament; Member of the April 1554 Parliament; Member of the 1554-55 Parliament; Member of the 1555 Parliament; Member of the 1558 Parliament;
Father	John Roper;
Mother	Jane Fyneux;
Child	Mary Basset; Thomas Roper; Elizabeth Roper; Margaret Roper; Andrew Roper;
Spouse	Margaret Roper (1521–);
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	Q141753; ISNI: 0000000118454615; VIAF ID: 120697769; GND ID: 122006151; Library of Congress authority ID: n80072508; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11922555d; IdRef ID: 027108163; Libraries Australia ID: 35461312; NL CR AUT ID: jn19992000994; National Library of Spain ID: XX1423310; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 323969836; NUKAT ID: n98031866; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 24074; NLP ID (old): a0000003116477; PLWABN ID: 9810673001605606; J9U ID: 987007267117805171; Open Library ID: OL1691504A
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English: William Roper (c. 1498 – 4 January 1578) was an English biographer. The son of a Kentish gentleman, he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas More. He wrote a highly regarded biography of his father-in-law.