Background
He was the son of William Copeland, surgeon, of Chigwell, Essex, where he was born on 1 September 1804.
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William Copeland
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Trinity College; Saint Paul"s School.
Career
In the latter year he went with a Pauline exhibition to Trinity College, Oxford, and, like another distinguished sympathiser with Tractarian doctrines, John Henry Newman, was first a scholar and then a fellow of that college. While at college he was ill and took no honours. But he was always known as one of the best Latin scholars at Oxford.
His degrees were Bachelor of Arts 1829, Master of Arts 1831, and Bachelor of Divinity 1840, and he was duly elected to a fellowship.
In 1829 he was ordained to the curacy of Street Olave, Jewry. Foreign the next three years he was curate of Hackney.
And in 1832 he went to Oxford, where he remained until he accepted, in 1849, the college living of Farnham, Essex. This was his sole preferment in the church, and he rebuilt the parish church with care.
After a long illness he died at the rectory on 26 August 1885.
