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Robert Camden Cope

Robert Camden Cope

British Member of Parliament

Robert Camden Cope (1771 – 5 December 1818) was a British politician from Loughgall, County Armagh in Ireland. He sat in the First Parliament of the United Kingdom.[1][2]

Life

Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[3] Cope was elected in Armagh with Archibald Acheson at the 1801 general election.[citation needed]

He died in 1818 and is buried at St Mary's Church, Weymouth.[4]

Personal life

He was the grandson of former MP Robert Cope. He was the nephew of Anthony Cope, the former Dean of Armagh.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Robert Camden Cope". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. [2]
    "COPE, Robert Camden (c.1771-1818), of Loughgall, co. Armagh. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  3. [3]
    Bellew, Seamus (2 February 2014). "Irish Heraldry: Loughgall - Cope & Doolan Arms". Irish Heraldry. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  4. [4]
    "COPE, Robert Camden (c. 1771-1818), of Loughgall co. Armagh".
  5. [5]
    E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002) vol. III, pp. 505-506.

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