[5][6] G. H. Kendal, who was Principal of University College Liverpool at the time of Cope's death, stated in a letter to the Liverpool Mercury that Thomas Cope had been “instrumental” in raising the fund for the Chemical Laboratories, to which he contributed the initial £600.
[7] and was the founding member and the first speaker of the Liverpool Parliamentary Debating Society.
[5][8] By 1876, 1500 of the 2000 workers at the company's factory in Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool, were women.
[9] The company was praised for its working conditions for women by Charles Dickens and Emily Faithful.
[10] Thomas Cope and his brother, George, applied for a patent in the United States for tobacco pressing equipment.