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Robert Lowry may refer to: * Robert Lowry (governor) (1829β1910), American politician, governor of Mississippi * Robert Lowry (hymn writer) (1826β1899), American professor of literature, Baptist minister and composer of gospel hymns * Robert Lowry (Indiana politician) (1824β1904), American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana * Robert Lowry (writer) (1919β1994), American novelist, short story writer and independent press publisher * Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry (1919β1999), Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary * Robert Lowry (Royal Navy officer) (1854β1920), British admiral * Robert William Lowry (1912β1963), New Zealand printer * Robert William Lowry (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Robert William Lowry (20 March 1824 β 8 June 1905) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). Military career Educated in Dungannon and Belfast, Lowry was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lowry (governor)
Robert Lowry (March 10, 1829January 19, 1910) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd governor of Mississippi from 1882 to 1890. Before entering politics, he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Early life and military service Robert Lowry was born in Chesterfield District, South Carolina on March 10, 1829, and was raised in Mississippi. During the American Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army. He quickly received a commission in the 6th Mississippi Infantry. He commanded the regiment at the Battle of Shiloh where it which suffered very heavy casualties and he was wounded himself. In early 1864 he led the troops that were sent to put down the local uprising of citizens near Jones County, Mississippi. Later Lowry commanded a brigade of Mississippi regiments in the Third Corps of the Army of Tennessee; an in February 1865 he was finally pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lowry (hymn Writer)
Robert Lowry (March 12, 1826 β 25 November 1899) was an American preacher who became a popular writer of gospel music in the mid- to late-19th century. His best-known hymns include " Shall We Gather at the River", "Christ Arose!", "How Can I Keep from Singing?" and " Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus". Born in Philadelphia, Lowry studied at the University at Lewisburg and entered the Baptist ministry in 1854. During the following 45 years he held a number of pastorates in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Between 1869 and 1875 he combined his pastoral work with a professorship in rhetoric at his alma mater, and later served as the University's chancellor. From 1868 he acted as hymnals editor to Biglow and Main, the country's leading publisher of gospel and Sunday School music; under his supervision more than 20 hymnals were produced by the firm, many of wide and enduring popularity. Despite his protestations that preaching was his main vocation and that music was merely a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lowry (Indiana Politician)
Robert Lowry (April 2, 1824 β January 27, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. Born in Killyleagh, County Down, Ireland, Lowry immigrated to the United States and settled in Rochester, New York. He was educated in private schools and had partial academic course. Librarian of Rochester Athenaeum and Young Men's Association. He studied law. He moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1843. City recorder in 1844 and 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Goshen, Indiana. Auditor of Elkhart County in 1852. Circuit judge in 1852. He served as president of the Democratic State convention. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore in 1860 and 1872. He served as circuit judge from 1864 until January 1875, when he resigned. He served as judge of the superior court in 1877 and 1878. Lowry was elected the first president of the Indiana State Bar Association in July 1879. Lowry was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lowry (writer)
Robert James Collas Lowry (March 28, 1919 β December 5, 1994) was an American novelist, short story writer, illustrator, and independent press publisher. Lowry was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a literary wunderkind who began writing at the age of 8; within a year, he had stories published in the ''Cincinnati Times Star''. He graduated from Withrow High School in 1937, after which he entered the University of Cincinnati. He was, according to biographer James Reide, a voracious reader of the literary works of Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Guy de Maupassant. The Little Man Press In 1938, while enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, Lowry served as editor for a university-sponsored chapbook titled ''The Little Man'' (whose credits claim it "was established in the Fall of 1937 by some students," but the contents were copyrighted under Lowry's name). William Saroyan contributed the lead essay "A Word on Reading and Writing." The same year, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry
Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry, PC, PC (NI) (30 January 1919 – 15 January 1999), was a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Knighted in 1971, he was created a life peer as Baron Lowry, of Crossgar in the County of Down, on 18 July 1979, in the early months of the Thatcher government. Early life His father was former Ulster Unionist Member of ParliamentODNB and Attorney General for Northern Ireland William Lowry. His mother was a niece of Sinn FΓ©in activist, Robert Wilson Lynd.''Obituary: Lord Lowry''; The Independent; 18 January 1999 He attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read Classics, achieving a double first. Military During the Second World War, he fought with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Tunisia, followed by the Royal Irish Fusiliers before becoming a Major in 1945. He has since held the title of Honorary Colonel for * 38th Irish Infantry Brigade - 5th Battalion a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lowry (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry (4 March 1854 – 29 May 1920) was a Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Scotland. Early life Lowry was the eldest son of Emily Rohesia (nΓ©e Ward) and Lieutenant General Robert William Lowry. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Naval career While a Midshipman, he was one of three crew of HMS Invincible to be awarded a Royal Humane Society Bronze award for saving a life off the coast of Gibraltar. Lowry was made a lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 15 October 1875. Lowry while still a lieutenant as the first to suggest the use of large-scale underway replenishment techniques in an 1883 paper to the think tank Royal United Services Institute. He argued that a successful system would provide a minimum rate of 20 tons per hour while the ships maintain a speed of five knots. His proposal was for transfer to be effected through watertight coal carriers suspended from a cable between the two ships. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert William Lowry
Robert William Lowry (17 November 1912 – 7 December 1963) was a New Zealand printer, publisher, typographer and teacher. Biography Lowry was born in Paeroa, New Zealand, on 17 November 1912. He was the eldest child of Janet (Jessie) Craig Forrest and Robert William Lowry, a storekeeper, farmer and carpenter from Ireland. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, where he first became interested in typography, and at Auckland University College (1931β1933). He was conferred a bachelor of arts degree during war service in 1943. While still at university, he undertook several printing enterprises, including the printing of ''The Phoenix'', the journal of the university's literary club. At this time Lowry was an admirer of Francis Meynell, Eric Gill and Stanley Morison, as well as Tschichold. During World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
