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1ST BARON HENRY BROUGHAM LOCH LOCH (1...

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BARON See also:HENRY See also:BROUGHAM See also:LOCH LOCH (1827-1900)  , See also:British colonial See also:administrator, son of See also:James See also:Loch, M.P., of Drylaw, Midlothian, was See also:born on the 23rd of May 1827 . He entered the See also:navy, but at the end of two years quitted it for the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's military service, and in 1842 obtained a See also:commission in the See also:Bengal See also:Light See also:Cavalry . In the See also:Sikh See also:war in 1845 he was given an See also:appointment on the See also:staff of See also:Sir See also:Hugh See also:Gough, and served throughout the See also:Sutlej See also:campaign . In 1852 he became second in command of See also:Skinner's See also:Horse . At the outbreak of the See also:Crimean war in 1854, Loch severed his connexion with India, and obtained leave to raise a See also:body of irregular Bulgarian cavalry, which he commanded throughout the war . In 1857 he was appointed attache to See also:Lord See also:Elgin's See also:mission to the East, was See also:present at the taking of See also:Canton, and in 1858 brought See also:home the treaty of Yedo . In See also:April 186o he again accompanied Lord Elgin to See also:China, as secretary of the new See also:embassy sent to secure the See also:execution by China of her treaty engagements . The embassy was backed up by an allied Anglo-See also:French force . Wit4 . Harry S . See also:Parkes he negotiated the surrender of the Taku forts . During the advance on See also:Peking Loch was chosen with Parkes to See also:complete the preliminary negotiations for See also:peace at Tungchow .

They were accompanied by a small party of See also:

officers and Sikhs . It having been discovered that the See also:Chinese were planning a treacherous attack on the British force, Loch rode back and warned the outposts . He then returned to Parkes and his party under a See also:flag of truce hoping to secure their safety . They were all, however, made prisoners and taken to Peking, where the See also:majority died from See also:torture or disease . Parkes and Loch, after enduring irons and all the horrors of a Chinese See also:prison, were afterwards more leniently treated . After three See also:weeks' See also:time the negotiations for their See also:release were successful, but they had only been liberated ten minutes when orders were received from the Chinese See also:emperor, then a fugitive in See also:Mongolia, for their immediate execution . Loch never entirely recovered his See also:health after this experience in a Chinese See also:dungeon . Returning home he was made C.B., and for a while was private secretary to Sir See also:George See also:Grey, then at the Home See also:Office . In 1863 he was appointed See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of the Isle of See also:Man . During his governorship the See also:House of Keys was transformed into an elective See also:assembly, the first See also:line of railway was opened, and the influx of tourists began to bring fresh prosperity to the See also:island . In 1882 Loch, who had become K.C.B. in ,88o, accepted a commissionership of See also:woods and forests, and two years later was made governor of See also:Victoria, where he won the esteem of all classes . In See also:June 1889 he succeeded Sir See also:Hercules See also:Robinson as governor of Cape See also:Colony and high See also:commissioner of See also:South See also:Africa .

As high commissioner his duties called for the exercise of See also:

great See also:judgment and firmness . The Boers were at the same time striving to frustrate See also:Cecil See also:Rhodes's schemes of See also:northern expansion and planning to occupy Mashonaland, to secure See also:control of See also:Swaziland and See also:Zululand and to acquire the adjacent lands up to the ocean . Loch firmly supported Rhodes, and, by informing See also:President See also:Kruger that troops would be sent to prevent any invasion of territory under British See also:protection, he effectually crushed the " Banyailand trek " across the See also:Limpopo (186o-91). houses of the See also:Renaissance See also:period . It has a tribunal of first Loch, however, with the approval of the imperial See also:government, instance, a communal See also:college and a training college . Liqueur-concluded in See also:July-See also:August 1890 a See also:convention with President distilling and tanning are carried on together with See also:trade in See also:farm-Kruger respecting Swaziland, by which, while the Boers withdrew produce, See also:wine, See also:wood and live-stock . all claims to territory See also:north of the See also:Transvaal, they were granted On the right See also:bank of the See also:Loire, opposite the See also:town and practian outlet to the See also:sea at Kosi See also:Bay on See also:condition that the See also:republic See also:tally its suburb, is the See also:village of See also:Beaulieu-See also:les-See also:Loches, once the entered the South See also:African Customs See also:Union . This convention was seat of a See also:barony . Besides the See also:parish ch rch of St See also:Laurent, a concluded after negotiations conducted with President Kruger beautiful specimen of 12th-See also:century See also:architecture, it contains the by J, H . See also:Hofmeyr on behalf of the high commissioner, ,and was remains of the great See also:abbey See also:church of the See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre made at a time when the British and See also:Bond parties in Cape founded in the 1 ith century by See also:Fulk Nerra, See also:count of See also:Anjou, who Colony were working in See also:harmony . The Transvaal did not, is buried in the See also:chancel . This chancel, which with one of the however, fulfil the necessary condition, and in view of the older transepts now constitutes the church, See also:dates from the 15th increasingly hostile attitude of the See also:Pretoria See also:administration to century . The Romanesque See also:nave is in ruins, but of the two Great See also:Britain Loch became a strong See also:advocate of the See also:annexation towers one survives intact; it is square, crowned with an by Britain of the territory east of Swaziland, through which the octagonal See also:steeple of See also:stone, and is one of the finest extant monu-See also:Boer railway to the sea would have passed .

He at length induced ments of Romanesque architecture . the British government to adopt his view and on the 15th of Loches (the See also:

Roman Leucae) See also:grew up See also:round a monastery See also:March 1895 it was announced that these territories (Amatonga- founded about 500 by St Ours and belonged to the See also:counts of See also:land, &c.), would be annexed by Britain, an announcement Anjou from 886 till 1205 . In the latter See also:year it was seized from received by Mr Kruger " with the greatest astonishment and See also:King See also:John of See also:England by See also:Philip See also:Augustus, and from the See also:middle regret." Meantime Loch had been forced to intervene in another of the 13th century till after the time of See also:Charles IX. the See also:castle See also:matter . When the commandeering difficulty of 1894 had roused was a See also:residence of the See also:kings of See also:France . the Uitlanders in the Transvaal to a dangerous See also:pitch of excite- LOCHGELLY, a See also:police See also:burgh of Fifeshire, See also:Scotland, 71 M. ment, he travelled to Pretoria to use his See also:personal See also:influence with N.E. of See also:Dunfermline by the North British railway . Pop . (19o1) President Kruger, and obtained the withdrawal of the See also:obnoxious 5472 . The town is See also:modern and owes its prosperity to the See also:iron-commandeering regulations . In the following year he entered a See also:works and collieries in its immediate vicinity . Loch Gelly, from strong protest against the new Transvaal See also:franchise See also:law . Mean- which the town takes its name, situated 2 m . S .

E., See also:

measures a m. while, however, the See also:general situation in South Africa was assuming in length by a m. in breadth, contains some See also:trout and See also:pike, and year by year a more threatening aspect . Cecil Rhodes, then has on its See also:west See also:banks Lochgelly House, a seat of the See also:earl of See also:Minto. See also:prime See also:minister of Cape Colony, was strongly in favour of a more The See also:Romans are said to have had a station at Loch Ore in the energetic policy than was supported by the Imperial government, parish of Ballingry, 24 M . N. by W., which was drained about and at the end of March 1895 the high commissioner, finding the end of the 18th century and then cultivated . To the N.E. himself, it is believed, out of See also:touch with his ministers, returned rises the See also:hill of Benarty (1131 ft.) . Hallyards, about 2 In. home a few months before the expiry of his See also:term of office . In S.E. of Lochgelly, is a ruined house that once belonged to Sir the same year he was raised to the See also:peerage . When the Anglo- See also:William' Kirkaldy of See also:Grange, who held See also:Edinburgh Castle for Boer war See also:broke out in 1899 Loch took a leading See also:part in See also:Queen See also:Mary . Here James V. was received after his defeat at raising and equipping a body of mounted men, named after Solway See also:Moss in 1542, and here a few See also:Jacobites used to meet him " Loch's Horse." He died in See also:London on the loth of in 1715 . June 1900, and was succeeded as 2nd See also:baron by his son See also:Edward LOCHGILPHEAD, a municipal and police burgh of See also:Argyll- (b .

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