Sir Francis William Lowe, 1st Baronet (8 January 1852 – 12 November 1929) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for

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at a

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in February 1898, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1929 general election, when he was succeeded by future UK Prime Minister

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who had moved from Birmingham Ladywood. He was made a Baronet in 1918, of Edgbaston in the City of Birmingham, and was appointed as Privy Councillor in the 1929 Dissolution Honours. He was married to Mary Holden; they had four children, including his heir Francis Gordon, who was a well-known tennis player before the

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, as was another son,

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. A third son,

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, played

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* 1852 births 1929 deaths Lowe, Sir Francis, 1st Baront Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Politicians from Birmingham, West Midlands Deputy lieutenants of Warwickshire {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub