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Lewis Lochée
Lewis Lochée (died 8 June 1791) was a military author born in the Austrian Netherlands. From the early 1770s, he was the proprietor and master of a military academy at Little Chelsea, at that time a rural hamlet near Westminster, in Great Britain.
After closing his academy in 1790, Lochée returned to the Netherlands to fight for the freedom of the Province of Brabant from the Austrians. In 1791, shortly before his death in France, he published a history of the Revolution.
When Lochée was naturalised as a British subject by an Act of Parliament on 8 May 1780, he said he was the son of John and Theresa Lochée, had been born at Brussels in the Province of Brabant, and had "constantly professed the true Protestant Religion"; apart from this, his origins remain obscure.
In the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Lochée, “It is unknown when or why he moved to England, though he was living in Camberwell, Surrey, in 1767. He was possibly a political exile from Austrian rule and certainly a protestant.“ On 26 August 1767, Lochée married Elizabeth Dubourg at St James's, Westminster.
Lochée owned and occupied property in Chelsea from 1770 until his death, establishing there by 1773 what he called the Royal Military Academy, for the training of infantry and cavalry officers, of which he was Master. There, the sons of gentlemen were taught History, Geography, Tactics, Fortification, Mathematics, Map Reading, Military Sketching, and languages. This was after the foundation in 1741 of the Woolwich Military Academy, which was for training artillery and engineer officers, but long before the establishment in 1801 of the Royal Military College. At a time when most British army officers were trained privately, if at all, Lochée‘s academy taught its students "the Modern Languages and all the Military Sciences."
In 1776 Lochée bought Hollywood Grove, a large brick house at Little Chelsea to the west of Hollywood Road, which had been owned by Henry Middleton, a planter in South Carolina and a landowner in Barbados, the father of Arthur Middleton, one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, also in 1776. There Lochée continued his academy, and over several years wrote and published books on military education.
On 16 October 1784, from Lochée’s property in Chelsea, there was a pioneering ascent by two balloonists, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Sheldon.
Lochée’s notable students included General John Whitelocke (1757–1833).
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Lewis Lochée
Lewis Lochée (died 8 June 1791) was a military author born in the Austrian Netherlands. From the early 1770s, he was the proprietor and master of a military academy at Little Chelsea, at that time a rural hamlet near Westminster, in Great Britain.
After closing his academy in 1790, Lochée returned to the Netherlands to fight for the freedom of the Province of Brabant from the Austrians. In 1791, shortly before his death in France, he published a history of the Revolution.
When Lochée was naturalised as a British subject by an Act of Parliament on 8 May 1780, he said he was the son of John and Theresa Lochée, had been born at Brussels in the Province of Brabant, and had "constantly professed the true Protestant Religion"; apart from this, his origins remain obscure.
In the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Lochée, “It is unknown when or why he moved to England, though he was living in Camberwell, Surrey, in 1767. He was possibly a political exile from Austrian rule and certainly a protestant.“ On 26 August 1767, Lochée married Elizabeth Dubourg at St James's, Westminster.
Lochée owned and occupied property in Chelsea from 1770 until his death, establishing there by 1773 what he called the Royal Military Academy, for the training of infantry and cavalry officers, of which he was Master. There, the sons of gentlemen were taught History, Geography, Tactics, Fortification, Mathematics, Map Reading, Military Sketching, and languages. This was after the foundation in 1741 of the Woolwich Military Academy, which was for training artillery and engineer officers, but long before the establishment in 1801 of the Royal Military College. At a time when most British army officers were trained privately, if at all, Lochée‘s academy taught its students "the Modern Languages and all the Military Sciences."
In 1776 Lochée bought Hollywood Grove, a large brick house at Little Chelsea to the west of Hollywood Road, which had been owned by Henry Middleton, a planter in South Carolina and a landowner in Barbados, the father of Arthur Middleton, one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, also in 1776. There Lochée continued his academy, and over several years wrote and published books on military education.
On 16 October 1784, from Lochée’s property in Chelsea, there was a pioneering ascent by two balloonists, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Sheldon.
Lochée’s notable students included General John Whitelocke (1757–1833).
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