The Isle of Man Victorian Society is to hold a talk about Sir Henry Brougham Loch, the lieutenant governor between 1863 and 1882.
Loch was 35 years old when he was appointed but already had had been a midshipman in the Royal Navy, captain in the Army, and undertaken diplomatic work in Japan and China where he was taken prisoner and tortured. For two years before his appointment as governor, he was private secretary to the British Home Secretary.
Derek Winterbottom will give the talk in the former art school (now Douglas Youth Centre) on Kensington Road, Douglas, on Sunday, August 25, at 2.30pm. Loch and his wife were early promoters of the establishment of an art school in Douglas.
Admission costs £1.
