[1] He was the younger son[2] of John Pope (1791–1863), Wesleyan missionary and Catherine, born Uglow, who was originally of Stratton, Cornwall.

[2] In 1845, he married Ann Ehza Lethbridge, daughter of a yeoman farmer of Modbury, near Plymouth.

[2] He served also for longer periods at City Road, London, Hull, Manchester, Leeds, and Southport.

[2] In 1876, he visited America with Dr. Rigg as delegate to the general conference of the methodist episcopal church at Baltimore.

[4] Wayne Grudem writes that, "This work […] is one of the greatest systematic theologies written from a Wesleyan or Arminian perspective.