Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope was a British Army officer and Whig politician. He is now chiefly remembered for his defeat at Prestonpans, the first significant battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745
Portrait by William Aikman, 1729–1732
St Giles, Camden, where Cope was baptised
Portrait of James Stanhope by Godfrey Kneller, Stanhope's patronage was the foundation of Cope's early career
A popular caricature shows Cope arriving at Berwick after Prestonpans.
Jacobite rising of 1745
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The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The last in a series of Jacobite risings that began in March 1689, it proved to be the end of Ja
John Cope (British Army officer)
…1760) was a British Army officer and Whig politician. He is now chiefly remembered for his defeat at Prestonpans, the first significant battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and which was commemorated by the tune "Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?", which still features in modern Scottish folk music and bagpipe recitals…
An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 by David Morier
James Francis Edward Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', or 'Chevalier de St George' portrait from 1748
Cardinal Fleury, chief minister of France 1723 to 1743; he viewed the Jacobites as an ineffective weapon for dealing with British power
Welsh Tory Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1692–1749); his blue coat was a Jacobite symbol