Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough
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Justice of the Peace
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(4 October 1903 – 30 June 1992) was a British
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peer
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and officer
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of the British Army
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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
William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
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. He was educated at Eton
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and Christ Church, Oxford
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, before joining the Royal Scots Greys in 1925.
From 1936 to 1937, Lopes was aide-de-camp
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to George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
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, the Governor-General
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of South Africa
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. 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
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in 1958, a post he held for the next twenty years. Among a number of posts, he served as a Justice of the Peace
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and a governor of Exeter University.
The Baron is the father of the Hon. George Edward Lopes, married to the Hon. Sarah Violet Astor
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, and by them the grandfather of Harry Marcus George Lopes, born October 7, 1977, who is married to Laura Parker-Bowles (Laura Lopes
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), the daughter of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
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(Camilla Parker-Bowles), at St. Cyriac's Church, Lacock
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, Wiltshire
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, May 6, 2006.