Robert Lowry (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Robert Lowry

Lowry in 1916
Born 4 March 1854
Died 29 May 1920 (1920-05-30) (aged 66)
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  Royal Navy
Years of service c.1872–1917
Rank Admiral
Commands held HMS Ramillies
HMS Hood
HMS Russell
Rosyth
Battles/wars World War I
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry, KCB (4 March 1854 – 29 May 1920) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth.

Naval career

Born the son of Lieutenant General Robert William Lowry and educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth,[1] Lowry was made a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1875.[2] By then a captain, in early 1902 he was in command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Ramillies, flagship of the second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.[3] The following May he was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Hood, also serving in the Mediterranean.[4] He became naval aide-de-camp to the King in 1905[1] and commanded the battleship HMS Russell in 1906[5] before becoming Rear Admiral Channel Fleet in April 1907 and President of the Royal Naval War College at Portsmouth in November 1907.[6] He was made Commander of the 5th Cruiser Squadron in November 1908, Commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in February 1909 and then Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth in July 1913,[6] serving in that role into World War I and until 1916.[7] He retired in 1917[8] to his home at Wickham Lodge at Wickham in Hampshire.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland by Robert Walford
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24256. p. 4905. 19 October 1875. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 6 February 1902. (36684), p. 10.
  4. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 22 March 1902. (36722), p. 14.
  5. ↑ Fleet Organisation 1906
  6. 1 2 Senior Royal Navy Appointments
  7. ↑ One hundred years of Admirals
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 30248. p. 8703. 19 August 1917. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
Military offices
Preceded by
New Post		 Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth
1913–1916 		Succeeded by
Sir Frederick Hamilton
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