Richard Pearse Chope (1862–1938) was a British civil servant in the

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and printer in

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. He joined the

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in 1896 and was presented from 1926 to 1927. Chope edited the ''Transactions of the Devonshire Association'' between 1928 and 1930.

Selected publications

* ''Ballads Weird and Wonderful'' (1912) * "Benson, M. P. and Smuggler," in ''The Hartland Chronicle'', 1906. *Chope, Richard Pearse; Thornley, Isobel Dorothy (1940). ''The Book of Hartland''. Torquay: The Devonshire Press.

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1862 births 1938 deaths British civil servants English antiquarians English printers {{England-bio-stub