Robert Lowe
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Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, GCB, PC, was a British statesman and Liberal politician who helped shape British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office under William Ewa
Lowe c. 1873
Robert Lowe, Vanity Fair, 1869
A terracotta statuette dated 1873 by caricaturist Carlo Pellegrini of Lowe standing on a box of matches inscribed 'Ex luce lucellum'
Lowe's grave in Brookwood Cemetery
First Gladstone ministry
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The Conservative government under Benjamin Disraeli had been defeated at the 1868 general election, so in December 1868 the victorious William Ewart Gladstone formed his first government. He introduce
Robert Lowe
…the first Member of Parliament (MP) for the London University, a new constituency created by the very Act he opposed. In 1868 he accepted office in the Gladstone Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, an office that he described in the following terms in the House of Commons on 11 April 1870: "The Chancellor of the…
Gladstone (1874)