Rogers was the only son of
Sir John Rogers, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Vincent, daughter of Spencer Vincent and was baptised at
St Andrew's, Plymouth on 14 June 1676. His father was a merchant of Plymouth and had also been Member of Parliament for the town from 1698 to 1700. On 9 May 1698, Rogers married Mary Henley, daughter of Sir Robert Henley at
St Giles in the Fields in
London after which his father gave him the Blachford Estate at Cornwood, near Ivybridge. In 1710, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy. He was re-elected MP for Plymouth at the
1715 general election but did not stand in
1722. Rogers was
Mayor of Plymouth in 1722 and again in 1741. ==References==