Cope, James (1)

an English Congregational minister, was born January 8, 1800. He joined the Church at King Street Chapel, Birmingham, when in his twenty-second year, entered Cheshunt College in 1824, and preached first at Middleton, near Manchester, September 2, 1827, where for some years he labored, and at Sleaford, Warrington, Farrington, and Alfriston successively, until his settlement over the Independent Church, Newmarket, in 1840. At the end of about six years he removed to Chatteris, then to Godmanchester, which he left in April, and accepted an invitation to Ashford in September, 1851. He died there, October 12, 1852. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1853, page 208.