Cope, Revd Sir William Henry (1811-1892), 12th Bt, of Bramshill, Hampshire; see Complete Baronetage, ed. G. E. C., I (Exeter, 1900), 38; VCH Oxfordshire, IX 112-23, passim, on the Copes at Hanwell, VCH Hampshire, IV 36-7 on the Copes at Bramshill; for the latter also Andrew G. Watson, `The Manuscript Collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)', BLR 12 (1987), 262-97, at 273-4; a manuscript catalogue of manuscripts and printed books in the library at Bramshill (`Catalogue of the Books in the Library at Bramshill'), dated 1 Jan. 1772, is now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. misc. c. 307; on the library see also Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1872), 244, the report on the library being the work of Alfred J. Horwood, q.v. C-250; J-051(2) ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1811 to 1892. Period: 19th century.

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