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Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough






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The Lord Roborough
Lord Lieutenant of Devon
In office
1958–1978
Preceded byThe Earl Fortescue
Succeeded bySir Richard Hull
Personal details
Born

Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes


(1903-10-04)4 October 1903
Died30 June 1992(1992-06-30) (aged 88)
RelationsWilliam Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (grandfather)
Parent(s)Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough
Lady Albertha Louise Florence Edgcumbe
EducationEton College
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, JP (4 October 1903 – 30 June 1992) of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British peer and officer of the British Army.

Early life[edit]

Lopes was the only son of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough and Lady Albertha Louise Florence Edgcumbe, the daughter of William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, before joining the Royal Scots Greys in 1925.

Career[edit]

From 1936 to 1937, Lopes was aide-de-camptoGeorge Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon, the Governor-GeneralofSouth Africa. He left the regiment in 1938, when he succeeded his father as Baron Roborough, but he rejoined in 1939 with the outbreak of the Second World War. Lopes served throughout the war, being twice wounded.

Lopes became Vice-Lieutenant of Devon in 1951, and then Lord Lieutenant of Devon in 1958, a post he held for the next twenty years. Among a number of posts, he served as a Justice of the Peace and a governor of Exeter University.[1]

Personal life[edit]

Lopes was married to Helen Dawson, only daughter of Lt.-Col. Edward Alfred Finch Dawson of Launde Abbey and the former Myra Battiscombe (eldest daughter of Maj. W.B. Battiscombe).[2] Together, they were the parents of two sons and one daughter:[3]

Lord Roborough died on 30 June 1992.

Descendants[edit]

Through his son George, he was a grandfather of Harry Marcus George Lopes (b. 1977), who was married on 6 May 2006 to Laura Parker Bowles, daughter of Andrew Parker Bowles and Camilla Shand (later Queen Camilla after her wedding to King Charles III), at St. Cyriac's Church, Lacock, Wiltshire.

Coat of arms[edit]

The Arms of Lopes, as granted to Manasseh Masseh Lopes, are blazoned 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[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ ROBOROUGH, 2nd Baron, created 1938, of Maristow; Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes (b. 4 October 1903 - d. 30 June 1992). In Who Was Who 1897-2005.
  • ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1973. p. 949. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  • ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. 1960. p. 406. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  • ^ Times, Cable To the New York (28 July 1945). "CAPT. ASTOR FIANCE OF LADY IRENE HAIG". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  • ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.942
  • Honorary titles
    Preceded by

    The Earl Fortescue

    Lord Lieutenant of Devon
    1958–1978
    Succeeded by

    Sir Richard Hull

    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by

    Henry Lopes

    Baron Roborough
    1938–1992
    Succeeded by

    Henry Massey Lopes


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