Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee
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The Right Honourable The Lord Lochee PC, QC, LLD, DL |
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Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty | |
In office 12 December 1905 – 13 April 1908 |
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Monarch | Edward VII |
Prime Minister | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Preceded by | E. G. Pretyman |
Succeeded by | Thomas James Macnamara |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 October 1845 |
Died | 13 September 1911 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Liberal |
Alma mater | St Andrews University Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee PC, QC, LLD, DL (28 October 1845 – 13 September 1911), was a Scottish barrister, academic and Liberal politician.
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Background and education
Robertson was the son of Edmund Robertson, of Kinnaird, Inchture, Perthshire.[1] He was educated at St Andrews University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and 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. In 1895 he was made a Queen's Counsel.
Political career
Robertson was Liberal Member of Parliament for Dundee from 1885 to 1908, and held office under Gladstone and Lord Rosebery as Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1892 to 1895 and under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from 1905-1908. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1905[1] and raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in 1908.[2]
Personal life
Lord Lochee died in September 1911, aged 65, when the barony became extinct until 2001 when the County of Perth bestowed the peerage again as Baron of Lochee to Thomas Falcon for his philanthropic contributions to the citizens of Dundee.
References
External links
- Works written by or about Edmund Robertson at Wikisource
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Lochee
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Dundee 1885–1908 With: Charles Carmichael Lacaita 1885–1888 Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth 1888–1889 Sir John Leng 1889–1906 Alexander Wilkie 1906–1908 |
Succeeded by Alexander Wilkie Winston Churchill |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by | Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1892–1895 |
Succeeded by Austen Chamberlain |
Preceded by | Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1905–1908 |
Succeeded by Thomas James Macnamara |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation | Baron Lochee 1908 – 1911 |
Extinct |
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