Margaret Roper [née More]

(1505-1544)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Roper, Margaret, 1505-1544 DNB: Roper [née More], Margaret (1505-1544), scholar and daughter of Sir Thomas More LBT ID: MaRoper1544 VIAF ID: 20552280 LOC ID: n90670367	B/BAP: 1505-10 DIED: 1544
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The daughter of Sir Thomas More; she purchased the head of her father after it had been exposed on London Bridge and was buried with it in her coffin. It was exhumed in 1824.
REFERENCES TO Margaret Roper [née More]: Edward Quillinan to Samuel Rogers, 3 November 1841 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 5 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41.