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William Roper (c. 1496 – 4 January 1578) was an English lawyer and member of Parliament. 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.
Air Force biography. William B. Roper Jr. is an American physicist and foreign policy strategist who served as the 13th Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, overseeing procurement for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force from 2018 to 2021.
Other articles where William Roper is discussed: biography: Renaissance: …More’s History of Richard III, William Roper’s Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatness; or, The life of Syr Thomas More, and George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey. The History of Richard III (written about 1513 in both an English and a Latin version) unfortunately remains unfinished; and it cannot meet…
William L. Roper (born 1948) is an American physician who was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1990 to 1993, when he was asked to step down over controversy about his response to the AIDS crisis.
Roper, William (1495/8–1578) in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 28 words. Search for: 'William Roper' in Oxford Reference ». (1495/8–1578)Of Lincoln's Inn. He married Sir Thomas More's daughter Margaret Roper and wrote an early life of his father-in-law first published at Saint-Omer (1626).
A miniature portrait of William Roper, a lawyer and politician who married Sir Thomas More's daughter, by the German artist Hans Holbein the Younger. The Met's collection includes more than 2,500 European paintings from the thirteenth to the early twentieth century.
William Roper was More's son-in-law and his life of Sir Thomas More, with its intimate glimpses of life within the More household, has become a classic biography.
