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Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke

1811–92

Politician, lawyer, and colonialist. BA, Oxford (University College), 1833. Lived in Australia, 1842–50. Writer of lead articles for The Times, 1851–68. MP, 1852–80. Became Viscount Sherbrooke in 1880. FRS 1871.

Sources

ODNB

Record of the Royal Society of London.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.

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