Maristow House
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Maristow House in the parish of Bickleigh, Devon, England, is a large country house set in landscaped parkland, on the River Tavy to the north of Plymouth. It was built in about 1560, rebuilt in the m
Maristow House, viewed from across the River Tavy
Manasseh Masseh Lopes
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Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet, of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British Member of Parliament and borough-monger.
Maristow House
…imposing Georgian mansion here in the 1760s. In 1798, after the death of James Modyford Heywood, the house and estate were bought by the Jamaican-born Manasseh Masseh Lopes, the son of a rich plantation owner, whose family later gained the title of Baron Roborough. The house was extended and altered in 1907. The Lopes…
Portrait of Lopes, c. 1825