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'{{refimprove|date=April 2020}} [[File:LopesArms.png|thumb|200px|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''<ref>Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.942</ref>]] '''Baron Roborough''', of [[Maristow House|Maristow]] in the County of Devon, is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1938 for [[Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough|Sir Henry Lopes, 4th Baronet]]. He had earlier represented [[Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)|Grantham]], Lincolnshire, in Parliament as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]. The '''Baronetcy''', of Maristow in the County of Devon, had been created in the [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom]] in 1805 for [[Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet|Manasseh Masseh Lopes]], a member of a wealthy family of [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] origin, with [[special remainder]] to his nephew Ralph Franco, son of his sister Maria. Manasseh Masseh Lopes converted to [[Christianity]] in 1802 [is this right? Or did he convert from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism? Or was - quite unlikely - his family of Jewish origin?], and later represented [[Evesham (UK Parliament constituency)|Evesham]], in Worcestershire, [[Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnstaple]] in Devon, and [[Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Westbury]] in Somerset, in Parliament. However, in 1819 he was twice convicted of bribing the voters in both [[Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnstaple]] and [[Grampound (UK Parliament constituency)|Grampound]] in order to be elected to Parliament, and was sentenced to imprisonment and heavy fines. He was also unseated by the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]], but after his release from prison he nonetheless got elected for [[Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Westbury]], a [[pocket borough]] which he controlled to a great extent. Lopes was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew Ralph Franco, the second Baronet, who assumed the surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco. He was Conservative [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Westbury]] and [[South Devon (UK Parliament constituency)|South Devonshire]]. His son, the third Baronet, also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury and South Devonshire and served under [[Benjamin Disraeli]] as a [[Civil Lord of the Admiralty]] from 1874 to 1880. In 1885 he was admitted to the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]]. He was the father of the fourth Baronet, who was raised to the peerage in 1938. The first Baron's son, the second Baron, was [[Lord Lieutenant of Devon]] from 1958 to 1978. As of 2015 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 2015. [[Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow]], was a younger son of the second Baronet. The family seat was [[Maristow House]], in the parish of [[Tamerton Foliot]],<ref>[[Tristram Risdon|Risdon, Tristram]] (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 402</ref> near [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]], (which they occupied 1798-1938) with the [[dower house]] being at nearby Roborough House, in [[Roborough, South Hams|Roborough]], near [[Plymouth]], Devon. Their seat today is Bickham House, adjoining the Maristow House estate to the north-east. [[File:Gnaton Hall - geograph.org.uk - 294452.jpg|thumb|Gnaton Hall]] The Lopes family, descendants of [[Manasseh Masseh Lopes|Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet]], lived in Roborough in the twentieth century, after moving from nearby Maristow House and before relocating to Gnaton, a smaller mansion on the coast near [[Noss Mayo]]. The very old village pub, which stands on the main street of Roborough is called the Lopes Arms. ==Lopes Baronets, of Maristow (1805)== *[[Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet]] (1755–1831) *[[Sir Ralph Lopes, 2nd Baronet]] (1788–1854) *[[Sir Massey Lopes, 3rd Baronet]] (1818–1908) *[[Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough|Sir Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, 4th Baronet]] (1859–1938) (created '''Baron Roborough''' in 1938) ==Barons Roborough (1938)== *[[Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough|Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough]] (1859–1938) *[[Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough|Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough]] (1903–1992) *[[Henry Massey Lopes, 3rd Baron Roborough]] (1940–2015) *[[Massey John Henry Lopes, 4th Baron Roborough]] (b. 1969) The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's son Hon. Henry Massey Peter Lopes (b. 1997). ==Coat of arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = Coronet of a British Baron.svg|[[Baron]] |image size = Coronet of a British Baron.svg|[[Baron]] |escutcheon = Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure, a Chevron Or, charged with three Bars Gemelle Gules, between three Eagles rising Or, on a Chief Or, five Lozenges Azure ''(Lopes)''; 2nd and 3rd, in a landscape field a Fountain, issuing thereout a Palm-tree, all proper ''(Franco)''. |coronet = A [[coronet]] of a [[Baron]] |crest = 1st: a Lion sejant Erminois, gorged with a Collar Gemelle Gules, the dexter forepaw resting on a Lozenge Azure ''(Lopes)''. 2nd: a Dexter Arm couped and embowed habited Purpure, purfled and diapered Or, cuffed Argent, holding in the Hand proper a Palm-branch Vert ''(Franco)''. |supporters = Dexter: a Lion proper, gorged with a Collar Gemelle and charged on the shoulder with a Lozenge Azure. Sinister: a Bull proper, charged on the shoulder with a Lozenge Azure. |motto = '''QUOD TIBI ID ALII''' ''(Do to another as you would be done by)'' }} ==See also== *[[Baron Ludlow]] ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}} *{{Rayment|date=February 2012}} {{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Roborough}} [[Category:Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]'