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.