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"Lopes, Sir Manasseh Masseh, first baronet (1755–1831), landowner and politician" published on by Oxford University Press. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
1st Baronet Lopes of Maristow, of Maristow House. Name spelt as Manaseh on memorial.
The inmates of Holland House were ‘disgusted by the violent sentence’ against Lopes, ‘the poor detected briber’.7 In the House, 21 Feb. 1820, Brougham complained of the severity of the sentence and hoped a degree of mercy would be extended towards him, but both James Scarlett, who had acted as Lopes’s counsel, and Lord John Russell ...
The scapegoat Jew Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes was prosecuted for bribery at Barnstaple (and Grampound), while Henry Swann suffered the same fate for his activities at Penryn. One-hundred-and-fifty-one (23 per cent) of the Members returned had no previous parliamentary experience; and another 36 such men came in during the life of the Parliament.
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Masseh Lopes, an ill-fated Sephardic Jew turned Christian, was much ridiculed as the caricature of a corrupt boroughmonger, whose miserliness and naivety led to the frustration of his better intentions and the destruction of his electoral ambitions.
Blatant bribery was exposed and proved beyond doubt by inquiry into the 1818 general election contest, which led to the criminal conviction of Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes* and 23 electors in 1819.4 In December that year Lord John Russell, to his own surprise, received ministerial approval for the principle of a disfranchisement bill.5 When the ...
