Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow

Henry Charles Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow PC, QC (3

October 1828 25 December 1899), was a British judge
and Conservative Partypolitician.
Background and education[edit]
Ludlow was a younger son of Sir Ralph Lopes, 2nd Baronet, and the uncle of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough. He
was educated atWinchester and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1852.

Political and legal career[edit]

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]
Family[edit]

Lord Ludlow married Cordelia Lucy, daughter of Erving

Clark, in 1854. They had one son and five daughters. She
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[edit]

1.

^ Jump up to:a b Rigg, James McMullen (1901). "Lopes,

Henry Charles". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National
Biography, 1901 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co.