COPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet (younger son of Wm. Cope of Bridges place, Kent, chapter clerk to dean and chapter of Westminster abbey). b. 22 July 1768; practised as a solicitor to 1806; succeeded his elder brother 12 Dec. 1812; kept a pack of foxhounds to year of his death. d. Bramshill park, Hants. 18 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 184–5 (1852).
COPE, Rev. Richard. b. near Craven chapel, Regent st. London 23 Aug. 1776; kept a boarding school at Launceston 1800–20; Independent minister at Launceston 21 Oct. 1801 to 24 June 1820; minister of Salem chapel, Wakefield 1822–29, of Quebec chapel, Abergavenny 1829–36, of New st. chapel, Penryn, Cornwall 1836 to death; M.A. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1819; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1824; author of Adventures of a religious tract 1820 anon.; Robert Melville or characters contrasted 1827; Pulpit synopsis, outlines of sermons 1837; Entertaining anecdotes 1838; Pietas privata, family prayers 1857. d. Penryn 26 Oct. 1856. Autobiography and select remains of Richard Cope edited by his son R. J. Cope 1857.
COPE, Thomas, b. London 1793; apprenticed to Joseph Smith, printer; worked under W. Clowes of Northumberland court, Strand, printer 1818–22; started a newspaper at Southampton 1822; returned to Clowes’s; printer and publisher of The Representative 1826; managed John Wm. Parker’s printing office; publisher of The Times 1848–63. d. Salisbury st. Strand, London 13 March 1877.
COPE, Thomas. b. Liverpool; commenced with his brother George Cope the manufacture of cigars in Liverpool 1848 and the manufacture of tobacco 1860, employed about 1300 people at his works Lord Nelson st. Liverpool and was the first person in England to engage women in making cigars; founded with J. R. Jeffery and Robert Gladstone, Financial Reform Association 1848; speaker of Liverpool Parliamentary debating society; aided Hugh Shimmin in founding The Porcupine 1860; Cope’s Tobacco plant, a monthly periodical, price 1d. No. 1 issued 21 March 1870, was brought out by Cope Brothers & Co. for about 14 years. d. Parkside cottage, Huyton near Liverpool 18 Sep. 1884 in 57 year. Liverpool Daily Post 19 Sept. 1884 p. 5.
COPE, William (only son of Wm. Henry Cope of Holbeach, Staffs.) b. 20 Oct. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; district registrar of Court of Probate, Shrewsbury 1858 to death; recorder of Bridgnorth 10 March 1871 to death. d. Shawbury, Shropshire 8 Jany. 1885.
COPELAND, Thomas (son of Rev. Wm. Copeland 1747–87, C. of Byfield, Northamptonshire). b. May 1781; M.R.C.S. 6 July 1804, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon 1 foot guards 1804–9; surgeon to Westminster general dispensary; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1837; author of Observations on some of the principal diseases of the Rectum 1810, 3 ed. 1824; Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine 1815, 2 ed. 1818 which was translated into several European languages. d. Brighton 19 Nov. 1855, personalty sworn under £180,000. Medical Circular iii, 31 (1853); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv, (1840), portrait.
COPELAND, Rev. William John (son of Wm. Copeland of Chigwell, Essex, surgeon). b. Chigwell 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Ox., Pauline exhibitioner 1824, scholar, fellow 1830–49; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1840; C. of St. Olave, Jewry, London 1829, C. of Hackney 1829–32; R. of Farnham, Essex 1849 to death; rural dean of Newport 1849–81; edited Newman’s Parochial and plain sermons 8 vols. 1868; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Ephesians in vol. 5 of the Library of the Fathers. d. Farnham rectory 26 Aug. 1885, part of his library is now in the National Liberal Club, Whitehall place, London.
COPELAND, William Robert, b. Deal; apprenticed to a chemist; lessee and manager of T.R. Liverpool and proprietor of royal amphitheatre 1843; manager of Strand theatre, London which he called “Punch’s Playhouse,” May 1851 to May 1852. d. New Brighton, Cheshire 29 May 1867 aged 68. bur. Smithdown lane cemetery, Liverpool 8 June. Era 2 June 1867 p. 4, col. 4.
COPELAND, William Taylor (only son of Wm. Copeland of the Stoke potteries, porcelain manufacturer, who d. 1826). b. 24 March 1797; manufacturer of porcelain at Stoke upon Trent 1833; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1828–29, alderman for ward of Bishopsgate 1829 to death, lord mayor 1835–36; M.P. for Coleraine 1833–37, for Stoke upon Trent 1837–52 and 1857 to 6 July 1865; pres. of Bridewell and of Bethlehem hospitals many years; bred racehorses and kept a stud. d. Russell farm, Watford, Herts. 12 April 1868. John Ward’s Borough of Stoke upon Trent 1843 pp. 64, 497–504, 582; Sporting Review lix, 309 (1868); Art Journal (1868) p. 158; I.L.N. xxxii, 561 (1858), portrait.
COPLAND, James, b. in the Orkneys, Nov. 1791; ed. at Lerwick and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; Medical officer of the African company on the Gold Coast 1817; practised in London 1820–69; edited The London medical repository 1822–27; L.R.C.P. London 26 June 1820, fellow 3 July 1837, censor 1841, 1842 and 1861, Gulstonian lecturer 1838, Croonian lecturer 1844–46, Lumleian lecturer 1854–55, Harveian orator 1857, Consiliarius 1844, 1849–51, 1861–63; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; pres. of Pathological Soc; author of A dictionary of practical medicine 3 vols. 1858 brought out in parts Sep. 1832–1858; The forms, complications, causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis 1861. d. Hertford house, Brondesbury road, Kilburn near London 12 July 1870. Physic and physicians ii, 285–89 (1839); T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i, 109 (1840), portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 410–20; Medical Circular iv, 299, 317 and 353 (1854).