Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Roborough
Honorific Suffix:JP
Office:Lord Lieutenant of Devon
Term Start:1958
Term End:1978
Predecessor:The Earl Fortescue
Successor:Sir Richard Hull
Birth Name:Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes
Birth Date:4 October 1903
Education:Eton College
Alma Mater:Christ Church, Oxford
Parents:Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough
Lady Albertha Louise Florence Edgcumbe
Relations:William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (grandfather)

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

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

From 1936 to 1937, Lopes was aide-de-camp to George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon, the Governor-General of South 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

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

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

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]

Notes and References

  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.
  2. Book: Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage . 1973 . Kelly's Directories . 949 . 25 February 2022 . en.
  3. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes . 1960 . 406 . 25 February 2022 . en.
  4. News: Times . Cable To the New York . CAPT. ASTOR FIANCE OF LADY IRENE HAIG . 25 February 2022 . . 28 July 1945.
  5. Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.942