Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee PC KC LLD DL (28 October 1845 - 13 September 1911) was a Scottish Liberal politician.

Educated at St Andrews University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he became a fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1872 and a Reader on law to the Council of Legal Education. He published on American Home Rule and wrote articles on legal and constitutional subjects for the 9th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Dundee from 1885 to 1908, and held office as Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1892-1895 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from 1905-1908.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1905 and raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in 1908. The title became extinct on his death.

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* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]