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Complete Baronetage.
[volume 5, page 200]
- COPLEY
- cr. 28 Aug. 1778 ; ex. 4 Jan. 1883.
I. 1778.
“ Joseph Copley, of Sprotborough, co. York, Esq., grandson and h. of the late Sir Godfrey Copley, Baronet,”(200a) formerly Joseph Moyle, s. of Joseph Moyle,(200b) (living 1710, aged 31) by Catherine, only surv. da. and h. of Sir Godfrey Copley, 2d and last Baronet [1666], of Sprotborough aforesaid (d. s.p.m.s. 9 April 1709), having suc. to the estates of his mother's family on the death, 20 Dec. 1766, of his distant cousin, Lionel Copley, of Sprotborough aforesaid, took by Act of Parliament 1768, the name of Copley instead of that of Moyle, and was cr. a Baronet, as above, 28 Aug. 1778. He m. in or before 1767, Mary (under age in 1745), da. of John Francis Buller, of Morval, Cornwall, by Rebecca, da. of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3d Baronet [1628], Bishop of Winchester. He d. 11 April 1781. Will pr. April 1781 and 1791. His widow d. 3 March 1787. Will pr. March 1787.
II. 1781.
Sir Lionel Copley, Baronet [1778], of Sprotborough aforesaid, 1st s. and h., b. about 1767 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 11 April 1781. M.P. for Tregony, 1796–1802. He d. unm. 4 March 1806, aged 39. Will pr. 1806.
III. 1806.
Sir Joseph Copley, Baronet [1778], of Sprotborough aforesaid, br. and h., b. about 1769, at Southampton ; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 23 Oct. 1786, aged 17 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 11 April 1781. He m. 23 May 1799, Cecil, the divorced wife of the 1st Marquess of Abercorn, formerly Lady Cecil Hamilton (she having been raised by royal warrant, 27 Oct. 1789, to the precedence of the da. of an Earl), 7th da. of Rev. the Hon. George Hamilton, Canon of Windsor, by Elizabeth, da. of Lieut. Gen. Richard Onslow, which George, was 3d s. of James, 3d Earl of Abercorn [S.] She, who was b. 15 March 1770, d. 19 June 1819. He d. 21 May 1838, at Whitehall yard, in his 70th year. Will pr. Nov. 1838.
IV. 1838, to 1883.
Sir Joseph William Copley, Baronet [1778], of Sprotborough aforesaid, only s. and h., b. 27 July 1804, in Marylebone ; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 25 April 1823, aged 18 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 21 May 1838 ; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1843. He m. 19 Nov. 1831, at Brockelsby, co. Lincoln, Charlotte, da. of Charles (Anderson-Pelham), 1st Earl of Yarborough, by Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte, da. of the Hon. John Bridgeman-Simpson. She, who was b. 20 Oct. 1810, and who was extra woman of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria, d. 15 Aug. 1875. He d. s.p. 4 Jan. 1883, at 35 Duke street, St. James', aged 78, when the Baronetcy became extinct.(200c) Will pr. 7 April 1883, over £86,000.
Notes.
(200a) See p. 195, note “ a,” under “ Hood.” It is to be observed that the Gazette notice for this creation is dated 18 Aug., whereas that for Lloyd, Coghill, Taylor, Riddell, Jebb and Lippincott, whose creations are posterior, is dated as early as 25 July.
(200b) This Joseph Moyle was 2d s. of Sir Walter Moyle, of Bake, co. Cornwall, Sheriff of that county 1671, who d. Sep. 1701.
(200c) He devised his estates in Yorkshire and Cornwall, subject to the life interest of his sister, to his cousin, Sir Charles Watson, 3d Baronet [1759], grandson of his paternal aunt Juliana, by Sir Charles Watson, 1st Baronet [1759]. He took the name of Copley after that of Watson, by Royal lic. 12 March 1887, and d. soon afterwards, s.p.m. 6 April 1888, aged 60.
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