COPLEY
COPPEE
eleven prints from Copley's works, the gift of
Gardiner Greene. His "Siege of Gibraltar"
was jjainted about 1789-90 for the council cham-
ber of Guildhall, London, and the figures are all
portraits. "The Red Cross Knight," painted
about 1788-90, gives excellent full-length por-
traits of Mr. Copley's son and two daughters, and
became the property of S. G. Dexter of Boston,
who married a great-granddaughter of the artist.
"The Family Picture "* became the proijerty of
Charles Amory of Boston, and "Mrs. Derby as
St. Cecilia "' of W. Appleton of the same city.
"The Daughter of George III." is in Bucking-
ham Palace, and his other liistorical English
subjects include " Offer of the Crown to Lady
Jane Grey" ; " Charles Demanding in the House
of Commons the Five Impeached Members " ;
" King Charles Signing Strafford's Death War-
rant " ; " Assassination of Buckingham " ; " Bat-
tle of the Boyne " ; " The Five Impeached
Members Brought Back in Triimiph," and " The
King's Escape from Hampton Court." His
eldest child, Elizabeth Clarke, born in Boston in
1770, was educated in England, became her
father's reader and companion, and in 1800 was
married to Gardiner Greene of Boston, and died
in that city in 1866 at the age of ninety-six
years. The third child, Susannah, died in 1785,
when nine years old, of scarlet fever, and the
fourth, Jonathan, died the same year, an infant,
while May, the youngest child, lived unmarried,
attaining the age of ninety-five years, dying at
Hampton Court palace, April 23, 1868. John
Singleton, Jr., the second child, born on Beacon
Hill, Boston, May 21, 1772, was educated at Trin-
ity college, Cambridge, England, and visited
Boston in 1796, where he failed to obtain a
settlement of his father's affairs, resulting from
a sale by the agent of his estate on Beacon Hill,
after his father's departure for Italy. He visited
Mount Vernon, was a guest of General Washing-
ton, and became enamored of Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Bishop White of Philadelphia, whom he
wished to marry, but the bishop would not allow
his daughter to make her home in England. He
travelled on horseback through the wilderness of
the Middle States and expressed a wish to settle
in his native land. He returned to England, how-
ever, in 1798, where he became a lawyer in 1804
and entered political life as a Tory member of
parliament in 1818. He became Lord Chancellor
in 1827 and was raised to the peerage as Baron
Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst, April 27, 1827. He
was twice married, but left no male issue and
the title lapsed with his death, which occurred
at Tunbridge Wells, England, Oct. 12, 1863, he
having reached the age of ninety-one years
and nearly six months. John Singleton Copley,
R.A., died in London, England, Sept. 9, 1815.
COPPEE, Henry, educator, was born in Savan-
nah, Ga., Oct. 13, 1821. His parents, natives of
Santo Domingo, had been driven thence in their
childhood by the negro insurrection. The son
entered Yale college in the class of 1839, remained
there about two years and then engaged as a civil
engineer in railroad work in Georgia until 1841,
when he was appointed a cadet in the U.S. mili-
tary academy. He
Avas graduated in
1845 and served in
garrison at Fort
Colimabus, N.Y.,
until the outbreak
of the war with
Mexico in 1846,
when he was pro-
moted second lieu-
tenant, 1st artil-
lerj'. He engaged
in most of the bat-
tles on General
Scott's line of
march from Vera
Cruz to the City of
Mexico ; and on
Aug. 20, 1847, he
was promoted 1st lieutenant and brevetted cap-
tain " for gallant and meritorious conduct in
the battles of Contreras and Churubusco." He
was assistant professor of French at the U.S.
military academj-, 1848^9; in garrison at Fort
McHenry, Md., 1849-50, and principal assistant
professor of geography, history and ethics at the
academy, 1850-55. He resigned his commission
in the armj-, June 30, 1855, and held the chair of
English literature and history in the University
of Pennsylvania, 1855-66. In 1866 he accepted
the presidency of Lehigh university, holding also
the professorship of English literature, interna-
tional and constitutional law, and the philosophy
of history. He resigned the presidency in 1875,
but retained his professorship until his death.
He was lecturer on the philosophy of history at
Hobart college, Geneva, N.Y., 1888-95. He was
a member of the American philosophical society,
an honorary member of the Pennsylvania histori-
cal society, and of several other scientific and
historical organizations. He was appointed a
regent of the Smithsonian institution in 1874 and
was elected a regent by congress, in 1880 and 1886.
He was U.S. commissioner on government assay
of coin in 1874 and 1877. He received the degree
of A.M. from the University of Georgia in 1848,
and that of LL.D. from the University of Penn-
sylvania, and from Union college in 1866. He
edited, the United States Service Magazine (1864-
66) ; a translation of Marmot's Spirit of Military
Institutions (1862) ; and a translation of Comte de
