LOBB, Harry William. b. 1829; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1850; surgeon London Galvanic hospital; surgeon St. Andrew’s hospital, Well st. London 1884 to death; author of Hygiene or the book of health 1855; On some of the more obscure forms of nervous affections 1858; A popular treatise on curative electricity 1867, 3 ed. 1873; Hypogastria of the male 1871, 3 ed. 1880; Nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia and diabetes 1872. d. 66 Russell sq. London 20 Jany. 1889.
LOCCO, Signor. b. Palermo 1798; painter to the court of Naples; resided at intervals in England 1849 to death; painted miniatures on ivory of the Queen and prince and princess of Wales; painted on ivory the head of Christ and ‘The End of the world.’ d. Cardiff 14 Feb. 1889.
LOCH, Francis Adam Ellis. b. 3 May 1827; cornet 1 Bombay cavalry 9 Oct. 1844, captain 29 May 1857; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 7 April 1870; commandant of Sind frontier force 1873–6; brigadier general Bombay 10 May 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 4 March 1887; general 22 Jany. 1889; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 2 Albany gardens, King’s road, Richmond, Surrey 27 July 1891.
LOCH, Francis Erskine. b. April 1788; entered navy 1 Sep. 1799, captain 29 Sep. 1814; naval aide de camp to the queen 4 May 1847 to 2 Sep. 1850; R.A. 2 Sep. 1850, V.A. 14 May 1857, admiral on h.p. 16 June 1862, pensioned 25 June 1863. d. 2 Lansdown crescent, Cheltenham 13 Feb. 1868.
LOCH, George (brother of the succeeding). b. London 6 July 1811; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847, bencher 17 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1875; Q.C. 20 June 1863; attorney general to prince of Wales 18 April 1873 to death; contested Falkirk 14 Feb. 1851 and Manchester 9 July 1852; M.P. Wick burghs 1868–72. d. The Cottage, Bishopsgate, Staines 18 Aug. 1877.
LOCH, Granville Gower (2 son of James Loch of Drylaw 1780–1855). b. 28 Feb. 1813; entered navy 23 Feb. 1826; captain 26 Aug. 1841; extra aide de camp to sir Hugh Gough in China 1842; visited India 1843; commanded the Alarm frigate in West Indies 1846–9; sent to coast of Nicaragua, Feb. 1848 to enforce redress for certain outrages, carried and dismantled a fort at Serapaqui, the demands were conceded and a treaty arranged; C.B. 30 May 1848; captain of the Winchester 50 guns the flagship on China and East Indian station 16 March 1852 to death; author of The closing events of the campaign in China, the operations in the Yang-tze-Kiang and the treaty of Nanking 1843; led a joint naval and military expedition against Nya-Myat-Toon a Burmese robber chief at Donablew; shot through the body 4 Feb. and d. 6 Feb. 1853. bur. at Rangoon, memorial monu. in St. Paul’s cath. London.
LOCH, James (eld. son of George Loch of Drylaw, Mid-Lothian). b. 7 May 1780; admitted advocate 1801; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806; auditor to marquess of Stafford, to lord Francis Egerton, to earl of Carlisle and others; carried out the Sutherlandshire clearings 1811–20, by which 15,000 crofters were removed from inland to the sea-coast; M.P. St. Germans 1827–30, M.P. Wick burghs 1830–52, contested the seat 26 July 1852; F.G.S., F.S.S. and F.Z.S.; author of An account of the improvements on the estate of Sutherland 1815, another ed. 1820; Memoir of George Granville late duke of Sutherland 1834. d. 12 Albemarle st. London 5 July 1855.
LOCH, John (brother of preceding). b. 8 Sep. 1781; served in naval service of H.E.I.Co. to 1821 when he retired; in command of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Scaleby castle beat off the Piedmontese a French frigate of 44 guns 1808; a director of H.E.I.Co. 1821–54, deputy chairman 1828 and 1836, chairman 1829 and 1833; M.P. for Hythe 26 March 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. d. at the res. of his son in law, the Hall, Bushey, Herts. 19 Feb. 1868. G.M. v 679 (1868); I.L.N. xvi 184 (1850), portrait.
Note.—On the 15 March 1837 he was dangerously wounded with a knife in a murderous attack made upon him at the India house, Leadenhall st. London by a man called Kearney who had been employed as a conductor of ordnance in India. Kearney destroyed himself by poison in Giltspur street compter in March 1837. Annual Register 1837 p. 26.
LOCHORE, Robert. b. Strathaven, Lanarkshire 7 July 1762; a shoemaker 1775, a master shoemaker at Glasgow; founded Glasgow annuity society 4 Jany. 1808; edited the Kilmarnock Mirror about 1817; an intimate acquaintance of Robert Burns; published two poetical tracts Willie’s Vision 1795 and The Foppish Taylor 1796; author of Tales in rhyme and minor pieces about 1815, anon.; his song ‘Now, Jenny, lass, my bonnie bird,’ has been attributed to Burns. d. Glasgow 27 April 1852. J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, i 382–6 (1876); C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, iv 91–7 (1857).