Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Francis Hodgess Roper, Baron Roper (born 10 September 1935) is a British politician. John Roper was educated at William Hulme''s Grammar School (Manchester), Reading School, Magdalen College, Oxford (studying PPE) and the University of Chicago. Roper started has career as an economics lecturer at the University of Manchester. He then went into politics and was elected Member of Parliament for Farnworth. He sat as a Labour Co-operative MP (1970 81) and for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1981 to 1983, when he was also the party''s Chief Whip. Since 2000 he has been a Life peer as Baron Roper, of Thorney Island in the City of Westminster. He was the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords until 2005. He was subsequently appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.