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British statesman, London, England.

Orangeman, journalist, farmer and politician.

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Physician.

Physician, Kingston, Ont.

Bookseller, Toronto, Ont.

Sir John Cope, a professional soldier who served under Marlborough, was a member of Parliament from 1722 to 1741, became a Lieutenant General in 1743 and was appointed Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces in Scotland, February 13, 1744. On 31 March he was granted the freedom of Edinburgh but left Scotland shortly afterwards to serve with the British forces in Flanders. On the landing of Prince Charles Edward (the Young Pretender) in Scotland in 1745, Cope embarked on a fruitless march to the Highlands, returned by sea to Dunbar, and on 21 September was routed at Prestonpans.

Daniel Corkery (Dónall Ó Corcora) was an Irish politician, writer and academic. He is best known as the author of The Hidden Ireland, his 1924 study of the poetry of eighteenth-century Irish Language poets in Munster.
Born in the city of Cork and educated at the Presentation Brothers and St. Patrick's College of Education, Dublin where he trained as a teacher. He taught at schools in Cork but resigned from St Patrick's School there in 1921 when he was refused the headmastership. He then taught art for the local technical education committee, before becoming inspector of Irish in 1925, and later Professor of English at University College Cork in 1930.
He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1951 to 1954 when he was nominated by the Taoiseach.

Editor of the "Sault Daily Star," Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

Writer, Dublin, Ireland.