Hermann Albert Loos (21 July 1865-????) was a
Ceylon
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
ese lawyer, judge and legislator. He was an
unofficial member of the
Legislative Council of Ceylon
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.
Born in Colombo to
Frederick Charles Loos
Frederick Charles Loos (13 December 1834 – 21 August 1911) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
Frederick Charles Loos was born on 13 December 1834, the son of Christiaan Albertus Loos (Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ceylon) and Co ...
, member of the Legislative Counci and Jane Harriet Keith, he was educated privately before studying at the
City of London School
, established =
, closed =
, type = Public school Boys' independent day school
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, head_label = Headmaster
, head = Alan Bird
, chair_label = Chair of Governors
, chair = Ian Seaton
, founder = John Carpenter
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,
University College, London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
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and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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graduating in 1887 and was called to the bar as a
barrister at the
Inner Temple
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. On his return to Ceylon he was admitted as an
advocate of the Supreme Court and became private secretary to Justice
Lovell Burchett Clarence. He started his own practice in the
unofficial bar in 1890, and joined the
Attorney Generals Department as Acting Office Assistant and Additional Crown Counsel. In 1899 he was appointed Additional Crown Counsel and in 1903 he was appointed
Office Assistant
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and
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. He served as
District Judge of Colombo. He married Minnie Evelyn Gratiaen and they had seven children.
He was elected as an
unofficial member in the
1921 legislative council election and was nominated in 1924 as an unofficial member by the Governor to the
Legislative Council of Ceylon
The Legislative Council of Ceylon was the legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1833, along with the Executive Council of Ceylon, on the recommendations of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission. It was the first form of represen ...
.
The ''Hermann Loos Championship Trophy'' has been awarded annually since 1917 to the best performing cadet platoon of the
National Cadet Corps at its annual camp at Diyathalawa.
References
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20th-century Sri Lankan people
1865 births
Members of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
Burgher judges
Burgher politicians
Sri Lankan barristers
Ceylonese advocates
People educated at the City of London School
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Members of the Inner Temple
Year of death missing