Baron Teynham

Barony Teynham

Arms of Roper: Per fesse azure and or, a pale counterchanged, and three stags’ heads erased of the second.
Creation date1616
Created byJames VI and I
PeeragePeerage of England
First holderSir John Roper
Present holderDavid Roper-Curzon, 21st Baron Teynham
Remainder tothe 1st Baron's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Seat(s)Pylewell Park
MottoSPES MEA IN DEO
(My hope is in God)

Baron Teynham, of Teynham in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1616 for Sir John Roper. The family seat is Pylewell Park, near Lymington, Hampshire.

In 1788, the 14th Baron Teynham inherited his distant cousin’s John Barnewall Curzon’s wealth and estate at Water Perry, Northamptonshire. Thus he adopted, by royal licence, the additional surname of Curzon despite not being related by blood to any Curzons. His descendants, such as John Roper-Curzon, the 21st and present Baron still go by their full surname of 'Roper-Curzon'.