Description: Original Vanity Fair print of Sir Massey Lopes, May 15, 1875, Statesmen No. 202 by Carlo Pellegrini known as Ape with Text. This near mint print is from the Evelyn Edison Newman Estate and has an appraised value of $35.00. Sir Lopes Massey Lopes, 3rd Baronet, 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. Lopes was the eldest son of Sir Ralph Lopes, 2nd Baronet, by his wife Susan Ludlow, daughter of Abraham Ludlow. Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow, was his younger brother. His father, originally Ralph Franco, had succeeded to the estates and title of his uncle Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet, in 1831, and assumed the same year the surname of Lopes in lieu of his patronymic. Both the Lopes and Franco families were of Sephardic-Jewish origins. Lopes was educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford. He unsuccessfully contested Westbury in 1853, but was returned to Parliament for the same constituency in 1857. In 1868, he was elected for Devonshire South, defeating Lord Amberley. In Parliament he was the member of a group including Henry Chaplin, Albert Pell and Clare Sewell Read, that supported farming interests, and was chairman of the Agricultural Business Committee. He was appointed High Sheriff of Devon for 1857. In 1874, Lopes was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli, a post he held until the government fell in 1880. Bad health forced him to decline the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1877. His health also forced him to leave Parliament in 1885. The same year he was sworn of the Privy Council but declined a peerage. He was later an Alderman of the Devon County Council from 1888 to 1904. He was also for many years a Director of the Great Western Railway. He was greatly interested in scientific farming, and completely rebuilt his Maristow estate. Lopes married firstly Bertha, daughter of John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston. They had one son and two daughters. After her death in 1872, he married secondly Louisa, daughter of Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet. There were no children from this marriage. Lady Lopes died in April 1903. Lopes survived her by five years and died in January 1908, aged 89. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son Henry, who was created Baron Roborough in 1938.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Region of Origin: United Kingdom
Custom Bundle: No
Personalize: No
Handmade: No
Item Width: 10 in
Production Technique: Chromolithograph
Item Length: 10 in
Item Height: 15 in
Subject: Vanity Fair, British History
Size: Medium
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Material: Paper
Culture: British
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
Image Orientation: Portrait
Framing: Unframed
Artist: Sir Leslie Ward "SPY", Carlo Pellegrini
Year of Production: 1875
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Signed By: N/A
Style: Illustration Art, Caricature
Signed: No
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Theme: British History, Vanity Fair Men of the Day
Type: Print