Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke
Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrook (born December 4, 1811 in Bingham , Nottinghamshire , † July 27, 1892 in Warlingham , Surrey ) was a British politician.
Lowe studied at Oxford, where he later worked as a teacher for a while. In January 1842 he became a barrister in London; but he emigrated to Australia that same year, where he soon became a widespread practice and was a member of the legislative assembly of the colony of New South Wales from 1843 to 1851 . He did an excellent job in deliberating laws governing the distribution of state lands and devising a curriculum to guide the organization of schooling throughout most of Australia.
Returned to England in 1851, he made his name through articles on colonial relations in the Times , was elected to the House of Commons in 1852 , where he introduced himself with a brilliant speech against the budget presented by Benjamin Disraeli . The new Aberdeen Ministry gave him the post of secretary to the Indian Office, which he held until February 1855. After Lord Palmerston took office , he was named Vice President of the Commerce Office, Paymaster General and Member of the Privy Council in August .
In the new election in March 1857, when the People's Party strongly opposed him because he had not kept his promise to work for the extension of the right to vote and other popular measures, he pushed through his renewed election as representative of Kidderminster with the help of the conservatives but so mistreated by the people that he hardly saved his life.
The fall of Palmerston in February 1858 also resulted in Lowe's resignation, and so he stepped on the side of the opposition, which demanded parliamentary reform. In 1859 he joined Palmerston's new cabinet as vice-president of the teaching council, but had to resign in 1864 because of a reproach requested by Lord R. Cecil because he had tendentiously distorted the reports of the school inspectors, which, however, on closer examination proved to be incorrect.
In 1866 he took revenge on the government, which had not given him sufficient support on this occasion, by making a significant contribution to the rejection of the Gladstone - Russell Reform Bill through his brilliant and dashing eloquence ; at that time he was the actual leader of the so-called Adullamites, according to John Bright's derisive expression .
When the Earl of Derby took steps to form a cabinet in July 1866, Lowe refused entry and opposed the Israeli reform bill with the same strength. Elected by the University of London as its first representative in the House of Commons in 1868 , he joined the Gladstone Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer in December .
His financial administration was characterized by great thrift, but was not very popular, so that Gladstone took over the office himself in the fall of 1873 and made Lowe Minister of the Interior, which post he kept until the resignation of the Liberals in February 1874. Lowe did not enter Gladstone's second ministry, but was given the hereditary title of Viscount Sherbrook , of Sherbrooke in the County of Surrey to peer on May 21, 1880 and transferred to the House of Lords .
Since he had no children, his title of nobility expired on his death in 1892.
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette : No. 24847, p. 3173 , May 25, 1880.
Web links
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Pleydell-Bouverie |
Paymaster General 1855-1858 |
Richard Hely-Hutchinson |
| George Ward Hunt |
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1868–1873 |
William Ewart Gladstone |
| Henry Bruce |
Home Secretary 1873–1874 |
RA Cross |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lowe, Robert, 1st Viscount Sherbrook |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lowe, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bingham |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1892 |
| Place of death | Warlingham , Surrey |