Nicholas Loney

Nicholas Loney (1826 (1826), Plymouth, United Kingdom – (1869-04-23)April 23, 1869, Mount Kanlaon, Negros Island, Philippines) was an English businessman and the British Empire's vice-consul in the city of Iloílo.

[4][6] This deindustrialisation was to be accomplished through shifting labour and capital from Iloílo's textile industry (Hiligaynon: habol Ilonggo), the origins of which predate the arrival of the Castilians,[7] to sugar-production on the neighbouring island of Negros.

[4][5][8] These changes had the double effect of strengthening England and Scotland's textile industries at the expense of Iloílo's and satisfying the growing European demand for sugar.

[2] Loney had unwittingly planted the seeds of a longstanding social conflict on both Panay and Negros,[3][12][13] the fruits of which taste ever bitter to this day.

[12][13][18] The expiration of the Laurel–Langley Agreement and the resultant collapse of the Negros sugar industry gave President Ferdinand E. E. Marcos the opening to strip the hacenderos of their self-appointed roles as kingmakers in national politics,[19] though arguably such an opportunity had been squandered and any significant gains stillborn.