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Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow

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The Lord Ludlow
Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
1 December 1885 – 27 October 1897
Preceded bySir Richard Baggallay
Succeeded bySir Roland Vaughan Williams
Justice of the High Court
In office
1876–1885
Personal details
Born
Henry Charles Lopes

(1828-10-03)3 October 1828
Died25 December 1899(1899-12-25) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
EducationWinchester College
Balliol College, Oxford

Henry Charles Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow, PC (3 October 1828 – 25 December 1899) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.

Background and education

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Ludlow was a younger son of Sir Ralph Lopes, 2nd Baronet, and the uncle of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1852.

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Lord Ludlow

Ludlow sat as Member of Parliament for Launceston from 1868 to 1874 and for Frome from 1874 to 1876. He was also a Recorder of Exeter from 1867 to 1876 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1868.

In 1876, he was appointed a Justice of the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice, a post he held until 1880, and then served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1885 to 1897.

Lopes was knighted in 1876 and sworn of the Privy Council in 1885. In 1897, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ludlow, of Heywood in the County of Wiltshire.[1]

Judgments

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Family

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Lord Ludlow married Cordelia Lucy, daughter of Erving Clark, in 1854. They had one son and five daughters.

  • Hon. Susan Ludlow Cordelia Lopes (30 Jun 1858 – 20 Apr 1938), who married Archibald Bence-Jones (1857-1937). They had one daughter.
  • Hon. Cordelia Lucy Lopes (1861 - 18 Apr 1945). She married Sir John Alexander Hanham, 9th Baronet. They had two sons, and a daughter.
  • Hon. Ethel Maud Lopes (27 Oct 1863 - 11 Dec 1943). Unmarried.
  • Henry Ludlow Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow (30 Sep 1865 – 8 Nov 1922). Married twice, but died without issue.
  • Hon. Ernestine Frances Lopes (13 Aug 1868 - 2 Sep 1938). She married George Lopes (28 Apr 1857 - 3 Oct 1909) in 1897.
  • Hon. Bertha Susan Lopes (1869 - 6 May 1926), married Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe. They had two sons, and a daughter.

Cordelia died in 1891. Lord Ludlow survived her by eight years and died in December 1899, aged 71. He was succeeded by his only son, Henry.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Rigg, James McMullen (1901). "Lopes, Henry Charles" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ "Report 63 (1988) – Jurisdiction of Local Courts Over Foreign Land". Law Reform Commission, New South Wales. 30 May 2001. Retrieved 1 September 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Launceston
1868–1874
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Frome
1874–1876
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Ludlow
1897–1899
Succeeded by