Loch, Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron

Loch, Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron

▪ British colonial official
born May 23, 1827, Scotland?
died June 20, 1900, London

      British soldier and administrator who served as high commissioner in South 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 (1880) and an appointment as governor of Victoria (1884).

      Loch was sent to Cape Colony five years later to act as governor and high commissioner in South African affairs. A staunch imperialist, he thought the British government should assert itself more directly rather than permit men like Cecil Rhodes to determine the character of British expansion. When Rhodes and his British South Africa Company became involved in the Matabele War in 1893, it was with reluctance that Loch approved the use of British forces to support the company's troops. As high commissioner, Loch could not avoid being drawn into the problems of the Uitlanders, who were mainly British residents in the Transvaal with strong grievances against the Boer government of Paul Kruger.

      After two official visits to the Transvaal (1893 and 1894), Loch was convinced that the Kruger regime could be easily overthrown with outside help. His “Loch plan” called for a quick raid from the Bechuanaland border when an opportune situation developed. After Loch's return to England in April 1895, Rhodes seems to have adopted his scheme, which led to the abortive Jameson Raid into the Transvaal in December 1895. Loch, who meanwhile had been created Baron Loch, in 1896 thought it necessary to defend himself in the House of Lords against the charge that he had promised Uitlanders in Johannesburg armed intervention if they staged an insurrection.

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