Background
He was the second son of Jonathan Cope, the eldest son of Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet. His mother was his father"s second wife, Jane, the widow of Captain the Honorary Shaw Cathcart and daughter of Lieutenant-General Francis Leighton.
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Jonathan Cope
Edit Profilerector of Wraxall vicar of Langridge
Career
In December 1781, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death at Eton College of his eleven-year-old nephew Charles (the son of his elder half-brother Charles). He was a cornet in the 21st Light Dragoons in 1782. Their three sons all died before them:
Jonathan was born in Dorset, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 24 October 1798, aged 18.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1802, became a priest, and was rector of Wraxall and Woodborough, Wiltshire, and vicar of Langridge, Somerset.
Charles died unmarried on board HMS Hannibal at Portuguese Royal on 30 September 1795. Henry Thomas was killed at Seringapatam in 1792.
He died on 30 December 1821 aged 63, and was buried in the Abbey Church there.
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Nationality
British