Sherbrooke, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount

b. 1811; d. 1892

British statesman, born at Bingham, Nottinghamshire; he was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1842. He went to Sydney, becoming a leading advocate there, and was elected a member of the legislative council of New South Wales. In 1850 he returned to England where he became a leader-writer on The Times. In 1868, the year in which he sat as the first member for London University, he became chancellor of the Exchequer under Gladstone, and held office until 1873, when he went for a short time to the Home Office. In 1879 failing health compelled his retirement, and he was made a viscount the following year. Lowe was a brilliant and epigrammatic speaker, and an admirable debater.

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