Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch

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...