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Died. 26 March 1831. (1831-03-26) (aged 76) Spouse. Charlotte Yeates. . (after 1795) . Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet (27 January 1755 – 26 March 1831), of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British Member of Parliament and borough-monger.
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Manasseh (Lopes) Masseh Lopes. (1755 - 1831) Sir Manasseh "1st Baronet Lopes" Masseh Lopes formerly Lopes. Born 27 Jan 1755 in Jamaica. Ancestors. Son of Mordecai Rodriguez Lopes and Rebecca (Pereira) Lopes. Brother of Rachel (Lopes) Pereira [half] and Esther Pereira (Lopes) Franco.
On the advice of ministers, Masseh Lopes was released in September 1820, after serving less than a year of his sentence.9 It was alleged by radicals, who condemned Whig support for his case, that he had threatened to withdraw the stopgap pro-government Members for Westbury, but had come to a deal whereby he would relinquish one of the seats to ...
Manasseh Masseh Lopes This time, last year, however, I visited Maristow House in Devon – a property that I knew had once belonged to Manasseh Masseh Lopes: a Sephardic Jew, born in Jamaica, who purchased the house in 1798 and converted to Christianity four years later, when he bought his seat in parliament in the rotten borough of New Romney.
Manasseh Masseh Lopes Maristow House in Devon is an elegant 18th century property, charmingly situated at the mouth of the river Tavy. It was purchased in 1798 by Manasseh Masseh Lopes (1755-1831), a Sephardic Jew from Jamaica, who plainly intended that Maristow would serve as his gateway into both landed society and public office.
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. At the next election Lopez secured a seat for Barnstaple, for which borough he was again returned in 1818. On March 18, 1819, he was found guilty of having bribed the electors of ...
He refers to the head and shoulders of Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, who, supported on crutches, looks up from the slough in which he is almost submerged. Beside him are the words 'Impurity of Elect—Bribery—Corruption'.
