[1] Born Roper Stote Donnison on 9 March 1771, he was only son of the Rev.
Through his mother, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Jonathan Sparke of Hutton-Henry, by Elizabeth daughter of William Roper of Clayport), he became heir to the Trimdon estates, the property of the Roper family, and at the age of about twenty-five assumed the surname of Roper.
[2] On 29 March 1793 Roper was admitted at Gray's Inn, and on 6 February 1799 was called to the bar.
In 1805 he appeared in the Law List as of 2 Lincoln's Inn Square, equity draughtsman.
), married, 25 October 1838, Jemima Margaret, daughter of the Rev.