Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-07
A Lord Justices borrowed Pinmes.
New York Sun


Lord Justice OF Appeal Lopes, OF the
English Supreme Court OF Judicature.
who has acquired a high reputation as
Judge during a service OF twenty-one
years on the bench, through a piece OF
puerle vanity has made Of himself
laughing stock In England. and has more
over raised the question OF the compati-
blllty Of high judicial functions with the
public utterance OF what Mr.. w. >. Gil
bert euphemistically calls 'taradiddles."
The Lord Justice was raised to the peer
age on the occasion Of the Queens jubi-
lee. and selected the title OF Lord Lud-
low Of Haywood. in Wiltshire. No one
found fault with his elevation, and no
I had an undoubted right to select any
name he wished for his barony, so long
as he did not take one 10 which others
had a right which Sir Henry Lopes was
careful not 10 do.
Unuckily for himself. however disre-
gardng the warning OF Rabelaiss Judge,
he felt called upon TO explain the grounds
for his decision, and In a letter printed
with his consent I'm the newspapers mada
this statement:
THE reason that l took the name or
Ludlow was because IL was my mothers
name. She came OF a very old wiltshire
family. with a recorded pedigree since
400. Among her ancestors are TO Do
found Edmund Ludlow, general or tho
forces In Ireland in the time Of Cromwell
the regicide, Sir Henry Ludlow. Bart.
n Baron Ludlow, a VisAount Ludlow, and
an Earl Ludlow, whose~ttle became ex-
tinct in 1870"
Herein he violated rule OF conduct.
laid down after much experience with
courts of law by that once FAMED New
England worthy Stephen Burroughs, OF
Hanover, n. H.: Never tell n lie when
the truth can be proved against you"
on the fathers side Lord Ludlow has an
indisputable Jewish pedigree, OF which no
might well be proud He is the grandson
sister Of Sir Manasseh LOpes. Bart, and
daughter OF Mordecai Rodrlgues Lopes
by his wife Rebecca, daughter of Names
seh Perera He can find no purer race
or longer authenticated pedigree than that
M the Portuguese Jews from whom bis
family descends. The maternal ancestors
he has chosen TO boast OF instead, not
only are not his own. but could easily DO
shown not 10 be his, as has been done
nerciessly I'm the Saturday Review by
the person signing himself X, who for
some time past has been exposing the IL
legitimate use OF armOrial bearing and
false pedigrees. He shows that every ono
OF the Lord Justices assertions Is false.
Edmund Ludlow the regcide, had no
children. No one was ever Niscount lud-
low, outside OF the family OF Herbert.
There was a Baron and Eorl Ludlow,
but he did not belong 10 the Wilt
shire family. and the last holder OF tina
title. who died I'm 1872. when the titles be-
came extinct, as he had no relatives. left
his property to Lord John Russell. AT
that time Sir Henry Lopes and his bro-
theirs were all alive. There was neyef
a Sir Henry Ludlow Bart, and tbs
Wiltshire family, whose pedigree goes
back 10 1900. is not the one to when
the Lord Justices mother belonged Thus
every one OF Lord Ludlow's averments
Is directly traversed, and the saturday
Review goes so far as TO print some teer-
ing verses, ending:
.'rhe Judge was stripped Of his foolish
side
Even as you and ID:
But he might have known what his iettes
Though il isn't on record his Lordsh's
tried
So the barcny lived. but the pedigree died.
For every one knew that the Judge - :
Gwen as you and ID.
man I'm the highest judicial position
stamptng himself in his old age q rene
gade 10 an honorable race and religion.
and attempting 10 foist on the public
spurious pedigree. IL not an edifJing spec
tacle. But they win do such things Ia
England.