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Edmund Robertson, Baron Lochee of Gowrie

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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"EDMUND ROBERTSON LOCHEE OF GOWRIE, Baron (184J1911), British jurist and politician. Born in Scotland Oct. 28 1845, and educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1872; he was called to the English bar, and became well known as a jurist, filling the posts of examiner in jurisprudence at Oxford, professor of Roman law at London University, and reader in law to the council of legal education. He was Liberal member for Dundee from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1908. In 1892 he became a civil lord of the Admiralty, and in 1906 was secretary to the Admiralty. His writings include a book on American Home Rule, and numerous articles on legal and constitutional subjects in the E.B. He died at Canterbury Sept. 13 1911.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Edmund Robertson, Baron Lochee of Gowrie'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​e/edmund-robertson-baron-lochee-of-gowrie.html. 1910.
 
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