Cope di Valromita, James Biddle, Baron, 1852-1929

found: NUC pre-1956(hdg.: Cope di Valromita, James Biddle, baron, 1852?- ; usage: Baron Cope di Valromita; variant: Cyprian Cope)

found: BLC(Cope (James Canby Biddle) afterwards Cope di Valromita (James Canby Biddle) Baron. See also Cope (Cyprian) pseud.)

found: The New York Times, issue from February 22, 1929, via WWW, April 2, 2018(Baron Cope di Valromita; also known as James Canby Biddle Cope; died at age 76 on February 19, 1929 in Rome; born in Philadelphia suburb)

found: The prominent amilies of the United States of America, 1908:page 49 (James Canby Biddle Cope; born 13 August 1852; married 25 June 1873, Marie Louise, daughter of Edward Augustus Saunders, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and, by her, has issue; Mr. Biddle Cope graduated at the University of Pennsylvania (LL.B.) and at Worcester College, Oxford (M.A.); Captain, 3rd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, 1882; Marquis of the Holy See, 1883, and a Baron in the kingdom of Italy, 1886)

found: At the Circulating Library, via WWW, April 2, 2018(James Cyprian Camby Biddle-Cope (1852-1929); Cyprian Cope (pseudonym); James Cyprian Canby Biddle-Cope was born in 1852 in Philadelphia, U.S.A., the second son of Alfred Cope, the wealthy owner of a Liverpool shipping line; he earned a degree from the University of Pennsylvania before attending Worcester College, Oxford (B.A. 1878, M.A. 1881); in 1873 he married the American Marie Louise Saunders and the couple had six children; Biddle-Cope (a name he adopted) bought an estate in Gloucester and served as a lieutenant (later captain) in the York and Lancaster Regiment; the pope named him a marquis of the Holy See in 1883 and the king of Italy named him a baron in the kingdom of Italy in 1886 (presumably for his pro-Catholic views); Biddle-Cope wrote a handful of undistinguished novels, including Grey of Greybury (1884), Mad (1887), and At Century's Ebb (1893); he died in 1929)

found: ancestry.com, April 2, 2018(James Canby Biddle-Cope; James Canby Biddle Cope; James B. Cope; James Biddle Cope; born 13 August 1852 in Philadelphia, PA; died February 1929; son of Alfred Cope and Rebecca Biddle)