Arms of Lopes: Azure, a chevron or charged with three bars gemelles gules between three eagles rising of the second on a chief of the second five lozenges of the first
Lopes was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew Ralph Franco, the second Baronet, who assumed the surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury and South Devonshire. His son, the third Baronet, also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury and South Devonshire and served under Benjamin Disraeli as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1874 to 1880. In 1885 he was admitted to the Privy Council. He was the father of the fourth Baronet, who was raised to the peerage in 1938. The first Baron's son, the second Baron, was Lord Lieutenant of Devon from 1958 to 1978. As of 2015 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 2015.
The family seat was Maristow House, in the parish of Tamerton Foliot,[4] near Plymouth, Devon, (which they occupied 1798–1938) with the dower house being at nearby Roborough House, in Roborough, near Plymouth, Devon. Their seat today is Bickham House, adjoining the Maristow House estate to the north-east.
Gnaton Hall
The Lopes family, descendants of Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet, lived in Roborough in the twentieth century, after moving from nearby Maristow House and before relocating to Gnaton, a smaller mansion on the coast near Noss Mayo. The very old village pub, which stands on the main street of Roborough is called the Lopes Arms.
1st: a Lion sejant Erminois, gorged with a Collar Gemelle Gules, the dexter forepaw resting on a Lozenge Azure (Lopes).
2nd: a Dexter Arm couped and embowed habited Purpure, purfled and diapered Or, cuffed Argent, holding in the Hand proper a Palm-branch Vert (Franco).
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure, a Chevron Or, charged with three Bars Gemelle Gules, between three Eagles rising Or, on a Chief Or, five Lozenges Azure (Lopes); 2nd and 3rd, in a landscape field a Fountain, issuing thereout a Palm-tree, all proper (Franco).
Supporters
Dexter: a Lion proper, gorged with a Collar Gemelle and charged on the shoulder with a Lozenge Azure.
Sinister: a Bull proper, charged on the shoulder with a Lozenge Azure.
Motto
QUOD TIBI ID ALII(Do to another as you would be done by)
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