Massey Lopes

Massey Lopes
"Local Taxation". Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1875
Member of Parliament for Devonshire South
In office
1868–1885
Civil Lord of the Admiralty
In office
1874–1880
Member of Parliament for Westbury
In office
1857–1868
High Sheriff of Devon
In office
1857
Personal details
Born(1818-06-14)14 June 1818
Died20 January 1908(1908-01-20) (aged 89)
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)Bertha Yarde-Buller (d. 1872)
Louisa Newman (d. 1903)
Children3, including Henry
Parent
RelativesHenry Lopes (brother)
Manasseh Lopes (great-uncle)
EducationOriel College, Oxford
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,[2] 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.

  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.