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Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch

British colonial official
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Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch of Drylaw
Born:
May 23, 1827, Scotland?
Died:
June 20, 1900, London, Eng. (aged 73)

Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch (born May 23, 1827, Scotland?—died June 20, 1900, London, Eng.) was a British soldier and administrator who served as high commissioner in Southern Africa and governor of Cape Colony from 1889 to 1895, a period of mounting tension between the British and the Boers. A career soldier, Loch began his service in India (1844–53) and fought in the Crimean War (1853–56) and in the second and third China wars (1857–58 and 1860). After 1860 he held civil appointments. From 1863 to 1882 he was governor of the Isle of Man. He thus earned knighthood ...(100 of 353 words)

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