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.