possession of the site, and they were formally admitted on 29 May 1556. Death Pope died at Clerkenwell on 29 January 1559, and was buried at St Stephen's, Walbrook; but his remains were subsequently removed to Trinity College, where his widow erected a semi-Gothic alabaster monument to his memory. Personal life Pope was married three times, to Elizabeth Gunston, Margaret (Townsend) and Elizabeth (Blount), but left no children. Much of his property was left to charitable and religious foundations, and the bulk of his Oxfordshire estates passed to the family of his brother, John Pope of Wroxton, and his descendants, the viscounts Dillon and the earls of Guilford and barons North. References 1500s births 1559 deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Cherwell District People educated at Eton College Members of the Parliament of England for Berkshire English lawyers English knights High Sheriffs of Essex High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire English MPs 1536 English MPs 1539–1540 16th-century English lawyers Founders of colleges of the University of Oxford