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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.
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Both he and his father, Mordecai Rodriguez Lopez, became converts to Christianity in 1802. In the same year Manasseh Lopez was returned to Parliament as member for New Romney, and was created a baronet Oct. 5, 1805, with remainder to his nephew Ralph Franco.
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 ...
Born Ralph Franco, of Abraham and Esther Franco, he was baptised on 17 May 1801 at Shipbourne, Kent. He adopted the name Lopes on the death of his uncle Manasseh Masseh Lopes when he inherited the title 2nd Baronet Lopes of Maristow, of Maristow House.
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 ...
