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Robert

Lowe, 1st Viscount 1811 – 27 July 1892),[1] British statesman, was a pivotal conservative spokesman who helped

shape British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office

under William Ewart Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer between

1868 and 1873 and as Home Secretary between

1873 and 1874. Lowe is remembered for his work in education policy, his

opposition to electoral reform and his contribution to modern UK company law. Gladstone appointed Lowe as Chancellor

expecting him to hold down public spending. Public spending rose, and Gladstone

pronounced Lowe "wretchedly deficient"; most historians agree. Lowe

repeatedly underestimated the revenue, enabling him to resist demands for tax

cuts and to reduce the national debt instead. He insisted that the tax system be

fair to all classes. By his own main criterion of fairness – that the balance

between direct and indirect taxation remain unchanged – he succeeded. However

historians do not believe this balance is a good measure of class incidence and

was by that time thoroughly archaic. Lowe

was born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire,

England, the second son of the Reverend Robert Lowe (rector of Bingham).

His mother was Ellen, the daughter of the Rev. Reginald Pyndar. Lowe had

albinism, and his sight was so weak that initially it was thought he was unfit

to be sent to school. In 1822 he went to a school at Southwell, then to

one at Risley, and in 1825

to Winchester as a

commoner. In Lowe's fragment of autobiography he shows an unpleasing picture of

the under-feeding and other conditions of the school life of the time. The

languages of Latin and Greek were the main subjects of study and Lowe records

that both were easy for him. Lowe then attended University College, Oxford,

and enjoyed the change; there as a pupil of Benjamin Jowett he gained a first class degree

in Literae Humaniores and

a second class in mathematics, besides taking a leading part in the Union debates. In 1835 he won a fellowship at Magdalen, but vacated it

on marrying, on 26 March 1836, Georgiana Orred (d. 1884). Lowe was for a few years a successful tutor at

Oxford, but in 1838 was disappointed at not being elected to the professorship

of Greek at the University of Glasgow. In

1841 Lowe moved to London to read for the Bar, but his eyesight showed signs of

serious weakness, and, acting on medical advice, he sailed to Sydney in the

colony of New South Wales, where he

set to work in the law courts. On 7 November 1843 he was nominated by Sir George Gipps, the Governor of New South Wales,

to a seat in the New South Wales

Legislative Council replacing Robert Jones who had to resign

from the Council due to insolvency. Owing to a difference of opinion with Gipps,

Lowe resigned from the Council on 9 September 1844, but was elected in April 1845 for Counties of St Vincent and Auckland. Lowe held that seat until

20 June 1848 and was elected for City of Sydney in

July 1848, a seat he held until November 1849. Lowe soon made his mark in the political world

by his clever speeches, particularly on finance and education; and besides

obtaining a large legal practice, he was involved with the founding and was one

of the principal writers for the Atlas newspaper. In

1844, Lowe defended a Royal Navy captain, John Knatchbull,

on a charge of murdering a widowed shopkeeper named Ellen Jamieson; he was one

of the earliest to raise in a British court the plea of moral insanity

(unsuccessfully). Knatchbull was hanged on 13 February 1844. Lowe and his wife

adopted Mrs. Jamieson's two orphaned children, Bobby and Polly Jamieson. On

27 January 1850, the Lowes and the two Jamieson children sailed to England.

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