| 词条 | Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet |
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Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet FRS ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɒ|p|l|i}}; c. 1653 – 9 April 1709) was a wealthy English landowner, art-collector and public figure, who lived at Sprotbrough House, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Copley was the son of Sir Godfrey Copley (1623–1677), who was created baronet by King Charles II in 1661, and he succeeded to his father's title and estates in 1678. In 1677 he had immediately followed his father as High Sheriff of Yorkshire. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1691.[1] He is remembered mainly because he provided a bequest of £100 to the society in London in 1709, which provided the funding for an annual award, the Copley Medal, the Society's premier award for scientific achievement. It is Britain's oldest scientific honour, a prestigious forerunner of the Nobel Prize, "in trust for the Royal Society of London for improving natural knowledge." He served as Member of Parliament for Aldborough from 1679 to 1685 and for Thirsk from 1695 to 1709, and also served as commissioner of public accounts and controller of the accounts of the army.[2] Copley was a major landowner in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire, holding lands in Sprotbrough, Newton, Cusworth, Cadeby, Wildthorpe, Loversall, Doncaster, Bentley and Warmsworth, among other places. He died at his Westminster house in 1709 and was buried at Sprotbrough. He had married twice: firstly Catherine - a noted beauty - daughter of John Purcell of Natribia, Montgomeryshire (they had one daughter, Catherine). Following Catherine's death, he married again; this time, to Gertrude, daughter of Sir John Carew of Anthony, Cornwall. With no male heir the baronetcy became extinct. The estates were left to a distant cousin Lionel after whom they passed in 1766 to Copley's grandson, son of his daughter Catherine, who had married Joseph Moyle of Beke, Cornwall. Their son Joseph Moyle, who was Clerk of the Signet, changed his surname to Copley by Act of Parliament on inheriting the Sprotbrough estate and was created a baronet in 1778. [3] References1. ^ {{cite web|url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27copley%27%29|title= Library and Archive catalog|accessdate= 2011-05-15}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 2. ^ {{cite web|url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/copley-sir-godfrey-1653-1709|title = COPLEY, Sir Godfrey, 2nd Bt. (c.1653-1709), of Sprotborough, Yorks.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate = 2013-03-06}} 3. ^ {{cite book|title= Debrett's Baronetage of England|first = John|last = Debrett|page=211}} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Aldborough | years = 1679–1685 | with = Henry Arthington 1679 Sir Brian Stapylton, Bt 1679–1681< | with2 = Sir John Reresby, Bt 1681–1685 | before = Sir John Reresby, Bt Henry Arthington | after = Sir Michael Wentworth Sir Roger Strickland }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Thirsk | years = 1695 – 1707 | with = Richard Staines 1695–1698 | with2 = Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt from 1698 | before = Thomas Frankland Richard Staines | after = Parliament of Great Britain }}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Thirsk | years = 1707 – 1709 | with = Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt | before = Parliament of England | after = Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt Leonard Smelt }}{{s-reg|en-bt}}{{s-bef|before=Godfrey Copley}}{{s-ttl|title=Baronet (of Sprotborough) |years=1678–1709}}{{s-non|reason=Extinct}}{{s-end}}{{Refimprove|date=February 2007}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Copley, Godfrey}} 20 : 1650s births|1709 deaths|Baronets in the Baronetage of England|English art collectors|Fellows of the Royal Society|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|British MPs 1707–08|British MPs 1708–10|High Sheriffs of Yorkshire|English landowners|English MPs 1679|English MPs 1680–1681|English MPs 1681|English MPs 1695–1698|English MPs 1698–1700|English MPs 1701|English MPs 1701–1702|English MPs 1702–1705|English MPs 1705–1707|Civil servants in the Audit Office (United Kingdom) |
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