alongside his brother, James Colledge Pope , beyond the east wall of the Church, In 1967 the Village er¬ ected a Lych-gate a+ the entrance to the Churchyard and laid a cement walk to the Pope grave as its pro¬ ject for Centennial year* The Pope family emigrated from Plymouth, England , where"they were merchants and ship-builders. They came to Bedeque originally, but some of the family moved on to St . Eleanor's* The Popes were also mem¬ bers of the Methodist connection, but the historian of the Methodist church in Bedeque , George Leard , ob¬ serves tha+ William Henry and James Colledge Nlos + their Methodism on their way to worldly affluence." This is his opinion on their becoming Anglicans1 William Henry 's son Joseph (afterwards Sir Joseph Pope, secretary to and biographer of Sir John A , Mac- Donald) at the age of 21 joined the Roman Catholic Church, and the Pope family became quite ecumenical in its spiritual affiliations* Pope family graves; W.. H. Pope 's is the white obelisk