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Nationality
  
British

Died
  
December 25, 1899

Role
  
Judge

Name
  
Henry 1st

Occupation
  
Judge


Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow

Born
  
3 October 1828 (
1828-10-03
)

Alma mater
  
Winchester College; Balliol College, Oxford

Profession
  
Barrister; Member of Parliament

Education
  
Balliol College, Winchester College

Henry Charles Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow, PC (3 October 1828 – 25 December 1899) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.

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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.

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

  • Learoyd v Whiteley [1887] UKHL 1, (1887) 12 AC 727 - (Lopes concurring with Cotton LF and Lindley LF in the Court of Appeal) - the House of Lords affirmed the Court of Appeal decision in this English trusts law case concerning the duty of care owed by a trustee when exercising the power of investment.
  • British South Africa Co v Companhia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602 (Lopes sitting in the Court of Appeal) - the House of Lords overturned Lopes' Court of Appeal decision and by so doing established the Mozambique rule, a common law rule in private international law that renders actions relating to title in foreign land, the right to possession of foreign land, and trespass to foreign land non-justiciable in common law jurisdictions.
  • The Satanita [1897] AC 59 - Contract law case atypical of the conventional offer & acceptance pattern seen in English law. Lopes decision at appeal affirmed by the House of Lords.

    • Family

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

    References

    Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow Wikipedia
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