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
Edgbaston
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at a
by-election
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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 Neville Chamberlain
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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
First World War
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, as was another son,
Arthur
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. A third son,
John
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, played
first-class cricket
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.
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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
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