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 Cornelia Rudolphina née Cramer, the second of nine children.

In 1857 he graduated from the Ceylon Law College as a Proctor, starting up his own legal practice.

On 25 April 1859 he married Jane Harriet née Keith (1838 – 1872) at the Holy Trinity Church, St Sebastian, Colombo, with whom he had seven children.

In June 1900 Loos was appointed as an unofficial member of Legislative Council of Ceylon representing the Burgher community, replacing the previous member Henry Lorensz Wendt. a position which he served until he died.

In 1909 he was awarded with a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), in recognition of his services on the Legislative Council.

Loos died on 21 August 1911 at the age of 76. His widow, Isabel Amelia, after Loos death, joined the Gospell Hall Brethren, purchasing land, building and furnishing the congregation with its own gospel hall, Bethesda Gospel Hall, in Colombo (which was dedicated on 3 April 1919). His two eldest sons, Frederick Charles (1861-1957) and Herman Albert (1865-?) also studied law and became barristers. His second youngest son, George Cecil Bertram, (1884-1915) was the first Ceylonese to be killed in action during World War I, while serving as a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment on 12 March 1915 and was buried in the Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery in Belgium.