POPHAM, HOME WHITWORTH VASSAL, son of Sir Home Riggs Popham (qv); bapt. St. Mary, Marylebone Road 31 May 1804; adm. 18 Sep 1812; left Mich. 1816; d. at Vera Cruz 30 Nov 1818.
POPHAM, SIR HOME RIGGS, brother of Stephen Popham (KS 1759, qv); b. 12 Oct 1760; adm. 14 Nov 1774; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Jan 1776, but did not matr.; entered Royal Navy Feb 1778; Lieut., 16 Jun 1783; Commander 26 Nov 1794; Post Capt., 4 Apr 1795; Rear-Adm., 4 Jun 1814; engaged in East India and China trade, with Admiralty permission; nearly ruined by the capture of his trading ship Etrusco in 1793, which involved him in prolonged litigation; served in Flanders under Duke of York 1793-5; attended OWW dinners at Calcutta in 1801 and 1803 (Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 271, 494); his innocence of a charge of embezzlement was established by a Select Committee of the House of Commons 1805; Commander-in-Chief of expedition which conquered Cape of Good Hope Dec 1805 – Jan 1806; took a British expeditionary force from there to Buenos Aires, briefly captured in July 1806 but then recaptured by Spanish troops who took the British occupying garrison prisoners; superseded 5 Jan 1807 and severely reprimanded by court-martial Mar 1807; took part in expedition to Copenhagen 1808; Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station 1817-20; MP Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) 21 Mar 1804 – Jan 1806, Shaftesbury 1806-7, Ipswich 1807-12; received freedom, City of London 8 Jan 1808; KCB 2 Jan 1815; KCH 1818; FRS 18 Apr 1799; responsible for the code of signals adopted by the Admiralty in 1803 and used at the battle of Trafalgar; m. 19 Dec 1788 Elizabeth Moffat, eldest dau. of Capt. John Prince, EI Maritime Service; d. 11 Sep 1820. DNB.
POPHAM, GEORGE MUNRO, son of Stephen Popham (KS 1759, qv); bapt. Madras 1 May 1779; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1795; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1794; Ensign 19 Oct 1795; Lieut., 23rd Native Infantry 15 Mar 1797; Capt., 26 Feb 1805; Maj., 1 Jun 1813; Lieut. -Col., 1 Mar 1818; CB 26 Jul 1823; d. unm. 22 Oct 1824.
POPHAM, EDWARD, second son of Edward Popham MP, Littlecote, Wiltshire, and Rebecca Huddon, St. George the Martyr, Middlesex; b. 27 Oct 1738; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1748/9 (Watts'); in school list 1754; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 9 May 1755; BA 1759; MA 1762; BD and DD 1774; Fellow, Oriel Coll.; ordained priest (Oxford) May 1763; Vicar of Lacock, Wilts., from Aug 1765; Rector of Chilton Foliat, Wilts., from 1778; m.; d. 16 Sep 1815.
POPE, WALTER, son of --- Pope, and Jane, widow of Walter Wilkins, Oxford, goldsmith, and dau. of Rev. John Dod, Rector of Fawsley, Northants [or Hanwell, Oxfordshire ?]; half-brother of Right Rev. John Wilkins DD, Bishop of Chester and Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1645, scholar 1645; migrated to Wadham Coll. Oxford, scholar 1648; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Cambridge 1657); MD 1661; Fellow, Wadham Coll. 9 Jul 1651 – 27 Jun 1662, Bursar 1655, 1657, Sub-Warden 1658, Dean 1660-1; Junior Proctor 1658; while Proctor suvccessfully resisted the attempt of Edward Bagshaw (qv) and others to abolish the wearing of gowns and hoods; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham Coll., London 1660 – 21 Sep 1687, res.; an original member, Royal Society 20 May 1663; obtained licence to travel 1664 and spent two years in Italy; Registrar, Diocese of Chester, from 1668; an intimate friend of Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, of whom he wrote a biography, published in 1697; author, Select Novels from Cervantes and Petrarch, 1694, and other works; d. 25 Jun 1714. DNB.
POPE, THOMAS, only son of Richard Pope, Cork, and Sarah, dau. of William Winthrop, Mayor of Cork; b.; adm. 13 Sep 1775; practised as solicitor at Cork; High Sheriff, Cork 1799, Mayor 1828; m. Catherine Baker; d. 1833, aged 71.
Pope, Thomas Stephen Legh, son of the Rev. William Alexander Pope, Vicar of Redbourn, Herts, by Frances Allenby, daughter of William White, of Redbourn; b. April 10, 1893; adm. May 2, 1907 (A); left Easter 1910; and went to Aspatria Agricultural Coll., Cumberland; assist. manager, Fertiliser Sales, Ltd., London; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. Jan. 30, 1916; served in France. July 1915 until he was wounded at La Bassee March 13, 1916; d. 30 Jan. 1966.
POPE, ROGER, son of Roger Pope MP, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and his second wife Elizabeth Bromidge (IGI); half-brother of George Pope (qv); bapt. Woolstaston, Shropshire 9 Jan 1689/90; adm.; QS 1704; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1707, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1707, aged 17, scholar 19 Apr 1708; BA 1710/1; buried Woolstaston, Shropshire 24 Jan 1748.
Pope, Roger Derek Edward, son of Edward Hugh Cooper Pope of Hampton Wick, and Frieda, d. of Stephen George Sage of Winchmore Hill; b. 12 Sept. 1934; adm. Sept. 1948 (B); left July 1951; a Nat. Prov. Bank official; rowed in Nat. Prov. Bank Four, winners at Henley of Wyfold Cup 1957, Thames Cup 1962, gold medallists (coxless fours) Commonwealth Games 1958; m. 7 Mar. 1959 Jennifer Elizabeth, d. of Arthur James Josiah Blethyn, civil servant, of Twickenham; d. 25 Oct. 2014.
POPE, GEORGE, son of Roger Pope MP, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir John Weld, Kt, Willey, Shropshire; bapt. Willey, Shropshire 9 Mar 1670 (IGI); adm.; KS 1685; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1688, matr. 29 Jun 1688, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1688 – void 1705; BA 1692; MA 13 Mar 1694/5; adm. Inner Temple 1691.