James Loch

(1780-1855)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Loch, James, 1780-1855 NRA: Loch James (1780-1855) MP economist DNB: Loch, James (1780–1855), lawyer and estate commissioner LBT ID: JaLoch1855 VIAF ID: 57823108 LOC ID: n88132945	B/BAP: 1780-05-07 DIED: 1855-06-28
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The son of George Loch of Drylaw, he was educated at Edinburgh University and was a barrister, estate commissioner, and Whig MP for St Germains in Cornwall (1827-30). He contributed to the Edinburgh Review.
REFERENCES TO James Loch: Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [Late summer 1804] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 8 Letters 1807 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 19