monarch succeeded death_date children religion imagesize office preceded birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
mary i sir thomas kempe 4 january 1578 elizabeth margaret thomas mary anthony roman catholicism 220px high sheriff of kent robert southwell c. 1496 1554 margaret more 1521 hans museum of art -rrb- . jpg holbein the younger - william roper -lrb- metropolitan william roper -lrb- biographer -rrb-
 1555 william roper lincoln 's inn
william roper -lrb- biographer -rrb-

william roper -lrb- c. 1496 -- 4 january 1578 -rrb- 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 .
