Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee PC, QC, LLD, DL (28 October 1845 – 13 September 1911), was a Scottish barrister, academic and

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Background and education

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and

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, and became a fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1872 and a Reader on law to the

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. He published on American Home Rule and wrote articles on legal and constitutional subjects for the 9th edition of ''

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''. In 1895 he was made a

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Political career

Robertson was Liberal Member of Parliament for Dundee from 1885 to 1908, and held office under Gladstone and

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from 1892 to 1895 and under

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as Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from 1905 to 1908. He was appointed a

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in 1905 and raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in 1908.

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.

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