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Sir Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner 1st Baronet 1838-1924 was a British shipbuilder shipowner and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was known simply as Robert Ropner.He was born c.1838 in Magdeburg Prussia He emigrated to England and worked for a coal export concern before building up a fleet of colliers and founding the Ropner Shipping Company in Hartlepool in 1874.In 1888 Robert Ropner acquired a shipyard at Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham.