Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet

Who is Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet?

Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet, was a British politician.

He was the son of Jonathan Cope, of Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire, who was Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England for Stafford from 1690 to 1694. His mother, Susan, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Fowler, a London goldsmith. The elder Jonathan Cope was the son and heir of another Jonathan Cope, who was the fourth son of Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet, of Hanwell, Oxfordshire.

He was educated at Eton College and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 18 February 1708 aged 16.

He was Member of Parliament for Banbury in the Parliament of Great Britain for two terms from 1713 to 1722. He voted against the government in all recorded divisions, and his name was sent to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender to the British throne, as a potential supporter. He was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 1 March 1714. In 1721, he received the Hanwell estates of the senior Cope line, which had been disinherited in a family dispute by an earlier baronet.