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Complete Baronetage.
[volume 3, page 211]
- COPLEY
- cr. 17 June 1661 ; ex. 9 April 1709.
I. 1661.
“ Godfrey Copley, of Sprotborough, co. York, Esq.,” 1st s. and h. of William Copley, of the same, by Dorothy, da. of William Rooth, of Romley, co. Derby, was b. 21 Feb. and bap. 23 March 1623, at Sprotborough ; suc. his father in 1644, and was cr. a Baronet, as above, 17 June 1661. He was aged 40 and upwards at the Heralds' Visit. of Yorkshire in 1666. He m. firstly, in or before 1653, Eleanor, da. of Sir Thomas Walmesley, of Dunkenhalgh, co. Lancaster, by Johana, da. of Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet [1611] of Sefton. She is said(211c) to have been bur. 18 Nov. 1649 [Qy. 1659], at Sprotborough. He m. secondly, in or before 1663, [page 212] Elizabeth, da. of William Stanhope, of Linby, co. Notts. She was bur. at Sprotborough, 22 Sep. 1682. He was bur. there, 21 Feb. 1677. Admon. 6 Nov. 1684.
II. 1677, to 1709.
Sir Godfrey Copley, Baronet [1661], of Sprotborough aforesaid, s. and h., being only child by 1st wife ; said to have been aged 13 at the Herald's Visitation of Yorkshire, 1666 ; admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 17 Nov. 1674 ; suc. to the Baronetcy in Feb. 1677 ; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1676–77 and 1677–78 ; M.P. for Aldborough (three Parls.), May 1679 to 1681, and for Thirsk (seven Parls.), 1695–1709 ; F.R.S. 1691, and Founder of the Copley prize awarded by that Society yearly since 1731 ; a Commissioner of Public Accounts and Controller of the Army Accounts in 1691. He m. firstly, (lic. fac. 16 Oct. 1681, he about 27 and she about 24), Katharine, da. and coheir of John Purcell, of Nantriba, co. Montgomery. She was living March 1686. He m. secondly, about 1700, Gertrude, da. of Sir John Carew, 3d Baronet [1641], of Antony, co. Cornwall, by his 3d wife, Mary, da. of Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet [1661], of Werrington. He d. s.p.m.s.(212a) of quinsy, in Red Lion Square, Midx., 9 and was bur. 23 April 1709 at Sprotborough, when the Baronetcy became extinct. Will dat. 14 Oct. 1704, pr. 11 April 1709. His widow (by whom he had no issue, and who was bap. at Antony aforesaid, 26 May 1682) m., in or before 1618, {Qy. 1718} Sir Coplestone Warwick Bamfylde, 3d Baronet [1641] of Poltimore, Devon, who d. 7 Oct. 1727, and d. his widow 14, being bur. 23 April 1736 at Poltimore. Will pr. 1736.
Notes.
(211c) Clay's Dugdale's Visit. of Yorkshire, 1666 [Genealogist N.S., vol. xvi., p. 112], based on extracts from the register by Dr. Sykes and on Hunter's South Yorkshire, which date of burial, however [1649], if, as stated in the Visitation, she was mother of Godfrey, aged 13 in 1666, is impossible.
(212a) Catherine, his only surv. da. and h. (by 1st wife), m. Joseph Moyle, and left a son Joseph Moyle, who, on inheriting the Sprotborough estates in Nov. 1766, took the name of Copley and was cr. a Baronet, 28 Aug. 1778, a dignity which became extinct, 4 Jan. 1882, on the death of the 4th Baronet. The Sprotborough estates, however, had devolved in 1709, to the exclusion of the said Catherine, on Lionel Copley, of Wadworth, co. York, great great grandson of Christopher Copley, of the same, a younger son of Sir William Copley, of Sprotborough (who d. 1556), the great great grandfather of Sir Godfrey Copley, 1st Baronet [1661], as in the text. This Lionel Copley (who d. Feb. 1720) entailed these estates on his two sons Godfrey and Lionel, and, failing their issue, on the descendants of the said Catherine Moyle, she being the da. and h. of the person from whom he had received them. On the death s.p., 20 Nov. 1766, of Lionel Copley, last named (who on the death, in April 1761, of his elder br., Godfrey, had inherited the same) this devise took effect.
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