Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lochee
PC QC LLD DL
The Right Honourable The Lord Lochee PC QC LLD DL
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
	In office; 12 December 1905 – 13 April 1908
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.

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 to 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. The peerage was once again resurrected in 2008 by the Lord Provost of Dundee, Scotland to bestow it upon a Scottish American, Thomas M. Falcon for his philanthropic contributions to the kingdom of fife.

References

^ ^a ^b thepeerage.com Edmund Robertson, 1st and last Baron Lochee
^ "No. 28139". The London Gazette. 22 May 1908. p. 3755.

External links

Works by or about Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee at Wikisource
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Lochee

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Armitstead Frank Henderson	Member of Parliament for Dundee 1885–1908 With: Charles Lacaita 1885–1888 Joseph Bottomley Firth 1888–1889 Sir John Leng 1889–1906 Alexander Wilkie 1906–1908	Succeeded by Alexander Wilkie Winston Churchill
Political offices
Preceded by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1892–1895	Succeeded by Austen Chamberlain
Preceded by E. G. Pretyman	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