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Christopher Billopp (Royal Navy officer)
Christopher Billopp (ca.1638 - 1726) was an English officer of the Royal Navy in the seventeenth century who commanded various ships of the line including in the Battle of Bantry Bay
Billopp was given a crown grant by James, Duke of York in 1676 for according to sources either or , on Staten Island in the colony of New York, where he built a stone manor house he named "Bentley Manor", after the name of a small ship he had commanded, the ''Bentley''. He received a second crown grant in 1687.〔English Crown Grants By S.L. Mershon NEW YORK THE LAW AND HISTORY CLUB: PUBLISHERS 39 CORTLANDT STREET 1918〕
The house, inherited by his great grandson Colonel Christopher Billopp, a British Loyalist during the American Revolution, was the setting for a failed peace conference between Lord Howe and members of the Continental Congress. His house is now a United States National Historic Landmark known as the Conference House.〔History of Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmar, and Some of their Descendants in America by Charles Farmer Billopp (Hardcover - 22 September 2009) Publisher: BiblioLife Language: English ISBN 1-113-76577-1 ISBN 978-1113765772〕
==Family==
Billopp's father was named William Billopp from Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. His grandfather was Christopher Billopp (Mayor of Beverley) and great grandfather Johnis. He had a brother named Joseph, who resided in New York and London, England. He was married twice and had two daughters by his first wife, Mary and Anne, his second wife was Katherine Farmar. Anne married Thomas Farmar. One of Billopp's descendants was the actress Jane Wyatt. Other descendants include James Michael Billopp Willis and Kenneth Christopher Stratton Thompson.
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