"ROBERTTHRESHIEREIDLOREBURN, 1ST Earl (1846), British lawyer and politician, was born at Corfu April 3 1846, and was educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, winning the Ireland scholarship in 1868.
On the formation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Government in 1905, Sir RobertReid became Lord Chancellor, and was raised to the peerage as BaronLoreburn.
Reid became BaronLoreburn in 1906, and in 1911, he additionally became Earl of Loreburn.
Lord Loreburn's disagreements with Lord Haldane, Sir Grey, Asquith, and eventually Lloyd George became more prominent, and it seemed that the Imperialists would get their way and force British military action onto the Continent.
Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham (Balliol 1849): I C13 f21v, 28, 29, D8 Herbert, Sidney, 1stBaron Herbert of Lea: III N7, 13, 21, 24, 55, 70, 75, 78, 110, 165, 194, 205
Leighton (born Figgins), Robert Leighton (Balliol 1867): I A14/1A, B3/25A
Henry Robert Hepburne (Balliol 1866): I A14/1A, B3/25A
Married as his second wife St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Hall 3rd December 1907, RobertThreshieReid, Earl Loreburn (born 3rd April 1846, died 30th November 1923: Lord Chancellor at the time of this marriage).
Robert Lowbridge Baker was the minister and a prominent landowner in Ramsden where, nearly a century after his death, the church retains much evidence of his energetic incumbancy.
Married secondly Farthinhoe, 8th August 1843 Thomas Drake who changed his name to Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (born 14th July 1818, died 24th July 1888) to whom she bore 9 recorded children.
Letts, Professor E.A. Leveson Gower, Francis, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Chief Secretary of Ireland, 1829
Lonsdale, John Brownlee (1850-1924), 1stBaron Armagh,, Unionist MP for Mid-Armagh, 1900-18, and Honorary Secretary of the Irish Unionist Party, 1901-16
Reid, RobertThreshie (1846-1923), Lord Loreburn, Lord Chancellor
Papers of the Lewis family, 19th-20th cent., mainly letters to: Elizabeth, Lady Lewis (1844-1931), with a few to her husband Sir George Lewis, 1st Bart.
C Letters to Sir George Lewis, 1st Bart., 1881-1911
Letter to Sir George Lewis, 1st Bart., and fragment of a facsimile letter, n.d.
