POPE, a surname common to both England and Scotland, though somewhat rare in the latter. In the list of those present at the meeting of the General Assembly at Glasgow, in June 1610, we find the names of Mr. William Pope and Mr. Thomas Paipe, both ministers. The Rev. Alexander Pope, minister of Reay, Caithness-shire, who died in 1776, was the author of a Description of the Shires of Caithness, Strathnaver, and Sutherland, in Pennant’s Tour. He also wrote a Description of the Dune of Dornedilla, for the Archaeology, 1779, vol. v. p. 216. In the summer of 1732 he rode on his pony all the way from Caithness to Twickenham, in order to visit his namesake, the poet, when the latter presented him with a copy of the subscription edition of the Odyssey, in five volumes quarto, and a handsome snuff box. They subsequently corresponded with each other, and from this and other circumstances it is thought probable that a relationship existed between them.