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Lowry Avenue, Minneapolis
Lowry may refer to: People * Calvin Lowry (born 1983), American football player * Dave Lowry (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey player * Desiree Lowry (born 1972), Puerto Rican beauty pageant titleholder * Hiram Harrison Lowry (1843–1924), American Methodist missionary to China * Heath W. Lowry (born 1942), British historian of the Ottoman Empire * Henry Berry Lowrie (born , 1872), Confederate outlaw * Henry Dawson Lowry (1869–1906), English journalist * James Lowry Jr. (1820–1876), Scottish mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * James K. Lowry (born 1942) zoologist. Lowry is his zoological author abbreviation * Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803–1879), British engraver * Kyle Lowry (born 1986), American basketball player * L. S. Lowry (1887–1976), British artist/painter * Leonard Lowry (1884–1947), New Zealand politician * Lois Lowry (born 1937), American author * Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957), British author and poet * Mark Lowry (born 1958), American comedian * Martin Lowry (187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Belmore
Earl Belmore is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that was created in 1797 for Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Viscount Belmore, who had previously represented County Tyrone in the Irish House of Commons. He had already been created Baron Belmore, of Castle Coole in County Fermanagh (now in Northern Ireland), in 1781 and Viscount Belmore in 1789, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Born Armar Lowry, he was the son of Galbraith Lowry, Member of the Irish House of Commons for County Tyrone, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Colonel John Corry. In 1774, he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Corry. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He represented County Tyrone in both the Irish House of Commons, Irish and British House of Commons, sat in the House of Lords as an Representative peer, Irish Representative Peer from 1819 to 1841, and served as Governor of Jamaica from 1828 to 1832. His eldest son, the third Earl, represented Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Lowry
Thomas Martin Lowry (; 26 October 1874 – 2 November 1936) was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society. Biography Lowry was born in Low Moor, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in a Cornish family. He was the second son of the Reverend E. P. Lowry who was the minister of the Wesleyan Church in Aldershot from 1892 to 1919. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset, and then at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. During those years he realized that he wanted to be a chemist. He studied chemistry under Henry Edward Armstrong, an English chemist whose interests were primarily in organic chemistry but also included the nature of ions in aqueous solutions. From 1896 to 1913 Lowry was assistant to Armstrong, and between 1904 and 1913 worked as lecturer in chemistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Lowry
Thomas Coleman Lowry (17 February 1898 – 20 July 1976) was a New Zealand Test cricketer. He Captain (cricket), captained the New Zealand cricket team, New Zealand team in its first seven Test cricket, Test matches, in 1930 and 1931. Lowry family Lowry's father, Thomas Lowry (racehorse breeder), Thomas Henry Lowry, a graduate of Cambridge University, inherited the Lowry property, Okawa, of 20,000 acres, in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island. He married Helen ("Marsie") Watt, daughter of James Watt, "one of the richest men in New Zealand", in 1897. He was a keen cricketer, who played one first-class cricket, first-class match for Hawke's Bay cricket team, Hawke's Bay and constructed a cricket ground, "The Grove", on his property, which is still in use. He helped the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association bring out leading English professionals, including Albert Trott and Jack Board, to coach local players. He also developed the Lowry property, which had been largely a sheep an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lowry
Thomas Lowry (February 27, 1843 – February 4, 1909) was an American lawyer, real-estate magnate, and businessman who oversaw much of the early growth of the streetcar lines in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding communities in Minnesota. He became head of the Minneapolis Street Railway Co., later to become part of Twin City Rapid Transit (TCRT). He is not known to be a relative of Sylvanus Lowry, the slaveholder and profiteer of slavery-related enterprise from St. Cloud, Minnesota.Christopher P. Lehman, ''Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State'' (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019), 19. Lowry was born in Logan County, Illinois, and came to Minneapolis in 1867 after passing the bar to become a lawyer. He set up shop and quickly found much of his work to be related to real-estate deals. Soon, real-estate became his primary focus. In 1875, he was recruited to join the Minneapolis Street Railway, which was rush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvanus Lowry
Sylvanus B. Lowry (July 24, 1824 – 1865) was an American Democratic political boss, newspaper publisher and pioneer in St. Cloud, Minnesota before the American Civil War. He moved there from Kentucky, bringing slaves with him as laborers. He was a profiteer of slavery-related-enterprises.Christopher P. Lehman, ''Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State'' (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019), 19. He was elected to the Territorial Council, as the first president of the town council (the office of city mayor did not yet exist), and to the Minnesota State Senate in 1862. Repeatedly attacked in writing by the abolitionist newspaper publisher Jane Swisshelm, he found his political influence reduced. He started a rival paper ''The Union'', which became the ''St. Cloud Times''. He died young in 1865. Early life and education Born in Kentucky, Lowry became a trader and slaveowner. His father was David Lowry, a Scottish-American Cumberland Presbyteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
