Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, JP (4 October 1903 – 30 June 1992) of Maristow in the parish of

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, was a British peer and

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of the

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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 William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, GCVO, PC, DL (5 November 1833 – 25 September 1917), styled Viscount Valletort between 1839 and 1861, was a British courtier, Conservative politician, and Volunteer officer. Background Ed ...

and Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton. He was educated at Eton and

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, before joining the

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in 1925.

Career

From 1936 to 1937, Lopes was aide-de-camp to

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, the

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. He left the regiment in 1938, when he succeeded his father as Baron Roborough, but he rejoined in 1939 with the outbreak of the

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. Lopes served throughout the war, being twice wounded. Lopes became Vice-Lieutenant of Devon in 1951, and then

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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

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Personal life

Lopes was married to Helen Dawson, only daughter of Lt.-Col. Edward Alfred Finch Dawson of

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and the former Myra Battiscombe (eldest daughter of Maj. W.B. Battiscombe). Together, they were the parents of two sons and one daughter: * Hon. Myra Bertha Ernestine Lopes (1937–1979) * Henry Massey Lopes, 3rd Baron Roborough (1940–2015), who married Robyn Carol Zenda Bromwich, eldest daughter of John Bromwich, of

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, in 1968. They divorced in 1986 and he married, his first cousin once removed, Sarah Anne Pipon Baker (b. 1951), a daughter of Colin Harris Baker and Penelope Elizabeth Pipon (eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir James Murray Pipon and Hon. Bertha Lopes, a daughter of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough) in 1986. ** Massey Lopes, 4th Baron Roborough *** Henry Massey Peter Lopes *** Ralph George Franco Lopes *** Olivia Jean Sorell Lopes * Hon. George Edward Lopes (b. 1945), who married Hon. Sarah Violet Astor, daughter of Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever and Lady Irene Haig. ** Harry Lopes, who married

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. *** Eliza Lopes *** Gus Lopes *** Louis Lopes 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

, daughter of

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and Camilla Shand (later Queen Camilla after her wedding to

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), at St. Cyriac's Church,

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Coat of arms

The Arms of Lopes, as granted to

Manasseh Masseh Lopes Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet (27 January 1755 – 26 March 1831), of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British Member of Parliament and borough-monger. Early life Lopes was born in Jamaica on 27 January 1755 i ...

, are

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

References

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