- 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 andCorpus Christi College, Oxford , he became a fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1872 and a Reader on law to theCouncil of Legal Education . He published on American Home Rule and wrote articles on legal and constitutional subjects for the 9th edition ofEncyclopædia Britannica . He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Dundee from 1885 to 1908, and held office asCivil 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.
References
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
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