Henry Lopes, 3rd Baron Roborough

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Henry Massey Lopes, 3rd Baron Roborough ( February 2, 1940 - February 8, 2015 ) was a British peer and politician .

Life

He was the older son of Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough (1903-1992) and his wife Helen Dawson († 1998).

He attended Eton College . He completed cadet training with the British Army and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in 1961 . He was a member (Professional Associate) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (ARICS). He lived as a landowner and landowner in the county of Devon .

In 2008, he hit the headlines negatively when he converted previously public parking lots near a pub , community hall and children's play area to paid parking on his Maristow Estate in Yelverton , Devon . The free parking spaces were used in particular by visitors to an old people's home there and by buyers, restaurant visitors and bank customers. Lopes had previously incurred the displeasure of the local government and the villagers when he blocked a private road between the villages of Roborough and Woolwell using a steel barrier with a padlock and blocked the driveway.

Membership in the House of Lords

With the death of his father on June 30, 1992, he inherited his title as 3rd Baron Roborough and 6th Baronet , of Maristow House. He thereby became a member of the House of Lords , into which he was solemnly introduced on March 9, 1995 . In the House of Lords he was a member of the Crossbencher faction . His membership in the House of Lords ended on November 11, 1999 when the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force .

He was not listed in the Register of Hereditary Peers , which are available for by-election. He was not a member of the Hereditary Peers Association .

Private

Lopes was married twice. On October 26, 1968 he married Robyn Zenda Carol Bromwich, the daughter of John Bromwich, for the first time. His wife was from Stamford Hill, Bacchus Marsh, in the state of Victoria , Australia . The marriage ended in divorce in 1986. In 1986 he married Sarah Anne Pipon Bake in his second marriage. Lopes was a father of six. From his first marriage there were two sons and two daughters, and from his second marriage there were two more daughters. Heir to his title of nobility was his eldest son, the Hon. Massey John Henry Lopes (* 1969).

In 2003 he lived in the Maristow Estate Office , Common Lane, in the village of Roborough near Plymouth, Devon. Lopes died at the age of 75, shortly after his 75th birthday. The funeral service for Lopes took place in St Martin's Chapel in Maristow .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 3rd Baron Roborough 1940-2015 death report in: Peerage News of February 11, 2015. Google Groups. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ 3rd Baron Roborough 1940-2015 death report in: Peerage News from February 11, 2015.
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42480, HMSO, London, 3 October 1961, p. 7190 ( PDF , English).
  4. ↑ a b c Villagers outraged after lord introduces car parking charges on his estate in Daily Mail, June 28, 2008
  5. ↑ Preamble (vol 562 C393) minutes of the House of Lords of 9 May 1995
  6. ↑ MEMBERSHIP LIST Hereditary Peerage Association publication ; accessed on February 11, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Massey Lopes Baron Roborough
1992-2015 		Massey Lopes
personal data
SURNAME Lopes, Henry, 3rd Baron Roborough
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lopes, Henry Massey, 3rd Baron Roborough
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1940
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2015