Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow


Henry Charles Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow, was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.

Background and education

Ludlow was a younger son of Sir Ralph Lopes, 2nd Baronet, and the uncle of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1852.

Political and legal career

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.

Judgments

Lord Ludlow married Cordelia Lucy, daughter of Erving Clark, in 1854. They had one son and five daughters.
Cordelia 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.