Massey Lopes

Vanity Fair

in 1875

Arms of Lopes: *Azure, a chevron or charged with three bars gemelles gules between three eagles rising of the second on a chief of the second five lozenges of the first*^[1]

Sir Lopes Massey Lopes, 3rd Baronet,

PC (14 June 1818 – 20 January 1908), known as Massey Franco until 1831, of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British Conservative

politician and agriculturalist.

Life

Lopes was the eldest son of

Sephardic-Jewish

origins.

Lopes was educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford. He unsuccessfully contested Westbury in 1853, but was returned to Parliament for the same constituency in 1857. In 1868, he was elected for Devonshire South, defeating Lord Amberley. In Parliament he was the member of a group including Henry Chaplin, Albert Pell and Clare Sewell Read, that supported farming interests, and was chairman of the Agricultural Business Committee. He was appointed High Sheriff of Devon for 1857.^[3]

In 1874, Lopes was appointed

Privy Council but declined a peerage. He was later an Alderman of the Devon County Council from 1888 to 1904. He was also for many years a Director of the Great Western Railway

. He was greatly interested in scientific farming, and completely rebuilt his Maristow estate.

Lopes married firstly Bertha, daughter of John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston. They had one son and two daughters. After her death in 1872, he married secondly Louisa, daughter of Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet. There were no children from this marriage. Lady Lopes died in April 1903. Lopes survived her by five years and died in January 1908, aged 89. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son Henry, who was created Baron Roborough in 1938.

Notes

^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.942
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Lopes, Lopes Massey" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ "No. 21964". The London Gazette. 3 February 1857. p. 379.

References

Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Lopes, Lopes Massey" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Massey Lopes

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by James Wilson	Member of Parliament for Westbury 1857–1868	Succeeded by John Lewis Phipps
Preceded by Sir Lawrence Palk Samuel Trehawke Kekewich	Member of Parliament for Devonshire South 1868–1885 With: Samuel Trehawke Kekewich 1868–1873 John Carpenter Garnier 1873–1884 John Tremayne 1884–1885	Constituency abolished
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Camperdown	Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1874–1880	Succeeded by Thomas Brassey
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ralph Lopes	Baronet (of Maristow) 1854–1908	Succeeded by Henry Yarde Buller Lopes

[1] Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.942

[2] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Lopes, Lopes Massey" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[3] "No. 21964". The London Gazette. 3 February 1857. p. 379.

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