Lopes was the only son of
Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow, by Cordelia Lucy, daughter of Erving Clark, of Efford Manor,
Plymouth. He was educated at
Eton and
Balliol College, Oxford, and was
called to the Bar,
Middle Temple, in 1890. In late 1899 he succeeded his father in the barony, and he took his seat in the
House of Lords on 1 March 1900. The family seat was
Heywood House, near
Westbury in Wiltshire; Lord Ludlow was appointed a
deputy lieutenant of
Wiltshire in 1900. He became a member of the
London County Council for
Marylebone in 1904, a post he held until 1907. He served in the
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment), where he was promoted to
lieutenant on 26 March 1902. He later fought in the First World War as a staff captain. Lord Ludlow was twice married. He married firstly in 1903 Blanche Holden, daughter of William Holden and former wife of
Frederick Ellis, 7th Baron Howard de Walden. She died in April 1911. After her death he married in 1919 Alice Mankiewicz, daughter of James Mankiewicz and widow of
Sir Julius Wernher. Both marriages were childless. Lord Ludlow died in November 1922, aged 57, and the barony became extinct. His second wife died in November 1945. ==References==