Person:Massey Lopes (2)

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Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes
b.4 Oct 1903 Portugal
d.30 Jun 1992 Devon, England
m. 10 Oct 1891
  1. Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes1903 - 1992
  • HMassey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes1903 - 1992
  • WHelen Dawson1906 - 1998
m. 15 Oct 1936
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Name Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes
Gender Male
Birth? 4 Oct 1903 Portugal
Marriage 15 Oct 1936 London, Englandto Helen Dawson
Death? 30 Jun 1992 Devon, England

Wikipedia: Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, JP (4 October 1903 -30 June 1992) was a British peer and officer of the British Army. Lopes was the only son of Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough, and Lady Albertha Edgcumbe, the daughter of William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, before joining the Royal Scots Greys in 1925. From 1936 to 1937, Lopes was aide-de-camp to George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon, the Governor-General of South Africa. He left the regiment in 1938, when he succeeded his father as Baron, but rejoined in 1939 with the outbreak of the Second World War. Lopes served throughout the war, being twice wounded. Lopes became Vice-Lieutenant of Devon in 1951, and the Lord Lieutenant of Devon in 1958, a post he held for the next twenty years. Among a number of posts, he served as a Justice of the Peace and a governor of Exeter University. The Baron is the father of the Hon. George Edward Lopes, married to the Hon. Sarah Violet Astor, and by them the grandfather of Harry Marcus George Lopes, born October 7, 1977, who is married to Laura Parker-Bowles (Laura Lopes), the daughter of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla Parker-Bowles), at St. Cyriac's Church, Lacock, Wiltshire, May 6, 2006. The engagement of Helen (Judy) Dawson, only daughter of late Lt. Col. E. A. F. Dawson, Rifle Brigade, of Launde Abbey, Leics, and Mrs. Dawson, Knossington, Oakham, to Massey Henry Edgcumbe LOPES (4oct1903-30jun1992), 2nd Baron Roborough, son of Sir Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough, 4th Baronet, and Lady Albertha Edgcumbe, was announced 1jul1936 (Times, wikipedia). Helen and Massey married 15oct1936 at London; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Butler were guests (Times).