Background
Lopes was the only son of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow, by Cordelia Lucy, daughter of Erving Clark, of Efford Manor, Plymouth.
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 1899 he succeeded his father in the barony. Ludlow was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire in 1900. 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. Both marriages were childless.
Lord Ludlow died in November 1922, aged 57, when the barony became extinct.
He became a member of the London County Council for Marylebone in 1904, a post he held until 1907.