Robert Cope (died 1753)
Robert Cope was an Irish Member of Parliament.Biography
He was the son of Anthony Cope, Dean of Elphin, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Cope of Loughgall. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Lisburn from 1711 to 1713 and for county Armagh from 1713 to 1714 and from 1727 until his death. In 1736 he was High Sheriff of Armagh.
Cope was married twice: firstly in 1707 to Lettice, daughter of Arthur Brownlow, and secondly in 1711 to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Fownes. By his second wife he had several children, including Anthony, Dean of Armagh, and Arthur, whose son Robert Camden Cope was also MP for Armagh.
