Born in Birmingham. A Founder member of the Birmingham Art Circle with Walter LANGLEY, Edwin HARRIS, Phil Whiting, William Banks FORTESCUE, he also visited or lived in Newlyn. (Ref Langley, Note 8, p144) Studied under Edward WATSON, H LINES and Samuel LINES.

Roger Langley in his new work (2011) on Walter LANGLEY and the Birmingham artists' connections with Cornwall, offers an extensive section on Pope. Pope is known to have first visited Newlyn with Langley in 1880 and thereby becomes one of the earliest of  West Cornish visitors. He is known to have submitted nine Newlyn subjects to the Birmingham Art Circle exhibitions and three to the RBSA.