In 1812 he succeeded his brother, Sir Denzel Cope, baronet. A notable master of the hounds who lived at Bramshill House, a Jacobean mansion in Hampshire.

REFERENCES TO Sir John Cope, eleventh baronet:

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, [December 1827 (1837?)] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)