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COP LEI— CORBET. 143 ILtncaflP. Sm ANTHOXY COPE, of Hanwell Castle, Oxon. (brother of Sir AValter Cope, wlio built Holland House, ami elder son of Edward Cope and Elizabeth his wife, dau. and heir of Walter Mohun, of WoUaston, Northants, and gi'andson of Sir Anthony Cope, knight of the carpet, vice-chancellor to Queen Catherixe Parr, and gi-eat-grandson of WiUiam Cope, who d. April 131.3, bj- his 2nd wife, Jane, dau. of John Spencer, of Hodnell, War-nicks. Esq.) ; high sheriff Oxon. 24 and 33 Queen Elizabeth, and knighted, m.p. Banbury in five Parliaments, created a Baroxet 29 June, 1611 ; m. 1st, Frances, dau. of Rowland Lytton, of Knebworth, Herts, and 2ndly, Anne, dau. of Sir William Paston, of Paston, Norfolk (widow, 1st, of Sir Greorge Chaworth,of Wiverton, Notts, and 2ndly, of Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, of Hunstanton, Norfolk, Knt.) By his 1st wife he had 3 sons, [1] Sir William, 2nd Baronet, knighted by JAMES I. whose male line became extinct on the death of Sir John Cope, 11th Bart. 18 Nov. 1851. [2] Anthony, had a grant of Dnimilly, Loughgall, and other large estates in Annagh by patent 5 July, 1611 ; these lands were created into the manors of DeiTycreevy and Drumilly by patent 14 Oct. 1629; will dated 7 Mar. 1633, proved 20 May, 1636; d. 12 Nov. 1634, having m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Sheffield, of Youghal, co. Cork, and from this marriage, according to a pedigi-ee recorded by Ulster king-of-arms, descended in the 5th generation, Edmund Reilly Cope, lieut.-gen. in the ai-my; b. 24 June, 1765; d. 18 Aug. 1835, having m. 14 Aug. 1794, Maria, dau. of James Fm-ber, Esq. of Woolcombe, Dorset; she d. 27 Nov. 1849. leaving a son and dau. (1) Sir William, 12th and present Baronet. (2) Charlotte, m. 8 Jime, 1848, to Rev. Henry Stretton, vicar of East'ille, Line, and has 4 sons and 2 daus. Henry Cope Strettox, b. 22 Feb. 1849.— John George Moore, b. 29 Aug. 1850. — Edmund Cope, b. 9 June, 1854. — William Sharpe, b. 24 Oct. 1855.— Elizabeth Charlotte.— Agnes Mary. [3] Richard, of Blittage, co. Monaghan.to whom and his heir his brother Anthony conveyed DruuiiUy and other estates ; m. Anne, dau. of Sir William AValter, of AVimbledon, SuiTey. ancestors of Cope of Drun>ully, Cope of Icombe, Glouc. and Cope of Drumilly, co. Armagh. COPLEY, Sir Joseph Wil- liam, of Sprotborough, co. York (1778, G.B.); s. his father as 4th Baronet in 1838 ; b. 27 July, 1804 ; m. 19 Nov. 1831, Lady Char- lotte Pelham, dau. of Charles, 1st Earl of Yarborough, and extra bed- chamber woman to H.M. the Queen; she d. 10 Aug. 1875. Note — No heir to this Baronetcy, Arms — Ai'g. a cross moline sa. Crest — Out of a ducal coronet or a plume of five ostrich feathers arg. Motto — In crace vinco. Seat — Sprotborough, Doucaster. Eineagc. Sm JOSEPH (MOYLE) COPLEY (grandson of Sir Walter Moyle, Knt. of Beke, Cornwall, and son of Joseph Moyle and his wife Catherine, only dau. and heir of Sir Godfrey Cop- ley, Bart, of Sprotborough Yorks.) assumed the simiame of Copley only, by Act of Parliament 1768, on succeeding to Sprotborough on the death of Lionel Copley (see Yorkshire Pedigrees, ed. Foster), who d. vmm. 20 Dec. 1766. He was created a BAROXET 28 Aug. 1778 ; d. 11 April, 1781, having m. Mary, dau. of John Francis Buller, Esq. of Morval, Cornwall (B. Churstox); she d. 3 Nov. 1787, having had with several daus. 2 sons, of whom the younger SIR JOSEPH COPLEY, 3rd Baronet (on the death of his brother Sir Lionel, 4 Mar. 1806); b. 1769; d.21 May,1838; having m. 23 May, 1799, Lady Cecil Hamilton (p.p. 1789), yoimgest dau. of Rev. and Hon. George Hamilton, canon of Windsor, and granddau. of James, 7th Earl of Abercom; she b. IP June, 1819, having had a son and 2 daus. (1) Sir Joseph William, 4th and jiresent Baronet. (2) Elizabeth JIary. (3) Maria, d. 14 Sept. 1879, having m. 9 Aug. 1832, to Henry, 3rd Earl Grev. i^~1 DEBET, Sir Vincent Rowland, "of More- V-^ ton, Salop " (1808, U.K.), lieut. late R.H. guards, high sherifi Salop 1862 ; s. his father as 3i'd Baro- net in 1855; b. 11 Aug. 1821; m. 9 May, 1854, Caroline Agnes, 3rd dau. of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman, of Knockin Hall, Salop (E. Bradford), and has 2 sons and 8 daus. (1) Walter Orlando, 2ud Ueut. Coldstream guards, b. 11 July, 1856. (2) Gerald Vincent, b. 29 Oct. 1868. (3) Alice Nina. (4) Sybell Rachel. (5) Isabel Agnes. (6) Beatrice Augusta. (7) Judith Elizabeth. (8) Mabel Hennione. (9) Constance Edith. (10) Gertrude Ursula. Abms — Oi", a raven ppr. Crests — l, An elephant ai-g. caparisoned or girthed sa. wth a castle on its back. 2, A squirrel mordant or; Dum spiro spero. MOTTO — Deus pascit corvos. SEAT — Acton Reynald Hall, Shrewsbury. Uineage. SIR ANDREW CORBET, Knt. of Moreton Corbet. Salop (14th in descent from Richard Corbet, the first of More- ton Corbet, who was descended from Corbet or Corbeau, a Norman noble, who,'n'itli his sons Robert and Roger, came over with the Conqueror), adm. Q. Coll. Oxon. 1699, m.P.'i623, 1625, 1628; bp. 28 Aug. 1580, and bur. 7 May, 1637, having m. 7 Jan 1608/9, Elizabeth, dau. of William Boothby of London, and sister and heir of Sir Henry Boothby, Bart. : she d. 19 Mar. 1657/8, having had 2 sons, (1) Sir Vincent, of Moreton Corbet, Salop. M.P. 1640, of Q. Coll. Oxon. created a Baroxet 29 Jan. 1641 '2; b. 13 Jane,