Henry Isaac Cope

Henry Isaac Cope (c1867-1930) of the GWR

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1930 Obituary.

Mr. Henry Isaac Cope, 5, Castlebar road, Ealing, formerly mineral manager of the Great Western Railway, died on Saturday at the age of 67. Mr. Cope was educated at Ruabon Grammar School during the headmastership of the Rev. A. L. Taylor, and he entered the Great Western Railway Service as a booking clerk at Birmingham in 1859. Subsequently he was stationmaster at Bordesley, Hockley, Swan Village and Twyford, and in 1865 he was appointed goods agent at Dudley, a post which included the supervision of Tipton Basin, Princes End, and the Cradley Canal district.

In 1871 he went to Reading as chief clerk to the District Goods Manager, and seven years later he was removed to Paddington as outdoor clerk to the Chief Goods Manager, the late Mr. John Grant. The following year, the goods managership of the Reading district, falling vacant, Mr. Cope was selected for the post.

In 1884 he was moved to Shrewsbury in a similar capacity, and shortly afterwards he came to London as outdoor assistant to the Chief Goods Manager. In 1806 he was appointed to the post of Mineral Manager. Mr. Cope's period of service extended over a period of nearly fifty years, from the time of the first general manager - Mr. Charles Saunders - to Mr. James C. Inglis. He took part in the arrangements for working the traffic in connection with the narrowing of the gauge, and in the revision of the London coal rates. Irish matters frequently necessitated his attendance at special meetings in that country.

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