Roger Taverner

Roger Taverner of Upminster, Essex was an English administrator and Member of Parliament for Newport, Cornwall.

Life

Taverner was the eldest of Richard Taverner's younger brothers. He was a surveyor and writer, said by Anthony [Wood (antiquary)|Anthony Wood] in Athenae Oxonienses to have studied at Cambridge but not graduated, though university records do not confirm this.
Probably in the 1540s he became deputy to Sir [Francis Jobson] as surveyor for the Court of Augmentations, and later he was employed by the exchequer until 1573. He was elected to Parliament in 1555 as a member for Newport-juxta-Launceston, Cornwall. He was also a writer of tracts on economic issues, such as 'Remedies... of derth of victualles', a similar work sent to her two years previously, and – unprinted, but more influential – his 'Arte of surveyinge' of 1565.
With his wife—a member of the Hulcote family—he had three sons, one of whom, John, Wood reports became a surveyor.