Robert Camden Cope
{{Short description|British Member of Parliament}}
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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.{{Cite web|title=Robert Camden Cope|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Cope/6000000002689117726|access-date=2021-01-20|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=COPE, Robert Camden (c.1771-1818), of Loughgall, co. Armagh. {{!}} History of Parliament Online|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cope-robert-camden-1771-1818|access-date=2021-01-20|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}
Life
Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge,{{Cite web|last=Bellew|first=Seamus|date=2 February 2014|title=Irish Heraldry: Loughgall - Cope & Doolan Arms|url=http://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2014/02/loughgall-cope-doolan-arms.html|access-date=20 January 2021|website=Irish Heraldry}} Cope was elected in Armagh with Archibald Acheson at the 1801 general election.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
He died in 1818 and is buried at St Mary's Church, Weymouth.{{Cite web |title=COPE, Robert Camden (c. 1771-1818), of Loughgall co. Armagh |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cope-robert-camden-1771-1818}}
Personal life
He was the grandson of former MP Robert Cope. He was the nephew of Anthony Cope, the former Dean of Armagh.E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002) vol. III, pp. 505-506.
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External links
- [http://staldhelmstann.co.uk/pdf/stmarysmonumentlist.pdf Burial]
See also
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Category:Year of death uncertain
Category:Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Category:People from County Armagh
Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Category:18th-century Irish politicians