1025 Edmund Robertson

Constituency  : Dundee  1885- 1908

Edmund  was  the  other  Liberal  victor  at  Dundee.

Edmund  was  the  son  of  a  parish  schoolmaster  from  Perthshire . He  was  educated  at  St  Andrews  and  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister  and  legal  author. he  was  a  moderate  Anglican.

Edmund  was  a  radical  who  supported  the  abolition  of  the  game  laws, temperance  and  local  government  reform. He  did  not  support  female  suffrage.

Edmund  was  Civil  Lord  of  the  Admiralty  from  1892  to  1895. He  was  Parliamentary  Secretary  to  the  Admiralty  in  Campbell-Bannerman's  government.  He  was  a  plain-speaking  man  who  had  little  time  for  circumlocution.

In  1908   Edmund,  who  was  in  poor  health, was  elevated  to  the  peerage  as  Baron  Lochee.

He  died  in  1911  aged  66.