Who was George Cope of Cope's Tobacco?

Answer 1

Cope Brothers Tobacco from 1848 to 1936

George Cope (1825-1888) and his brother Thomas (1826-1884) began manufacturing cigars in Liverpool in 1848. By 1876 Cope's Tobacco Factory in Lord Nelson Street employed some 2,000 workers including 1,500 women. The Co-operative News for 26 August 1876 reported with some admiration that the women workers at Cope's were responsible for making thirty-six million cigars a year. Cope's were proud of the factory and the working conditions including a series of free evening classes where women workers could learn to cook 'simple dishes, cheap, nutritious and palatable'. In the first class in September 1875 the instructor Mrs Thwaites cooked 'sea pie, Australian (i.e. tinned) meat pie, and treacle pudding'. A month later additional classes were conducted in St George's Hall for 'women in a better position than wives of the artisan class' who could pay a fee. Buried Anfield Cemetery Liverpool. Liverpool Mercury reported that George Cope had a short illness and that the recent weather has accelerated his Death. On his death he left £274,000 which by todays money would be worth about £16,409,860.00 .