 He was also an author and Conservative MP for Helston, Cornwall from 1859 to 1865.Rogers was born, in the vicarage at Mawnan on 16 February 1816, to the Reverend John Rogers (1778–1856) and Mary Jope (died 1837).The eldest of five sons, he inherited the estate of Penrose on 12 June 1856, following the death of his father.