Cope, George (1780-1822)

Comments

VENN and FOSTER
B.A. 1786, incorp. from Oxford; M.A. from ST CATHARINE'S, 1786. S. of Edward, of Hereford. Matric. (St John's College, Oxford) Dec. 12, 1778, age 19; B.A. (Oxford) 1783. Incorp. M.A. at Oxford, 1804; B.D. and D.D. from St John's College, Oxford, 1804. Doubtless V. of Lyonshall, Heref., 1784-5. V. of Clehonger and of Allensmore, 1789-99. V. of Bromyard, 1793-1821. V. of Sellack, 1805-14. V. of Madeley, 1814-21. Canon Residentiary of Hereford Cathedral. Benefactor to foreign missions and to various charitable institutions. A list of his bequests occurs in a laudatory memoir in G. Mag., but his connection with Oxford and Cambridge is not mentioned. Died Sept. 5, 1821, aged 65 (sic), at Hereford. Buried in the cathedral. (Al. Oxon.; G. Mag., 1821, II. 374.)

Evidence