Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton
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The Right Honourable The Lord Rowton KCVO CB PC DL |
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Lord Rowton.
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| Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
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In office 1868–1868 |
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| Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Preceded by | - |
| Succeeded by | - |
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In office 1874–1880 |
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| Prime Minister |
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield from 1876) |
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| Born |
Montagu William Lowry-Corry 8 October 1838 London |
| Died | 9 November 1903 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Montagu William Lowry-Corry, 1st Baron Rowton KCVO CB PC DL (8 October 1838 – 9 November 1903), also known as "Monty," was a British philanthropist and public servant, best known for serving as Benjamin Disraeli's private secretary from 1866 until the latter's death in 1881.
Born in Grosvenor Square, London, Lowry-Corry was the second son of the Honourable Henry Lowry-Corry by his wife Lady Harriet, daughter of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury. The social reformer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury was his maternal uncle. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1863. He practised for three years on the Oxford Circuit.
Lowry-Corry's father, a younger son of Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, represented County Tyrone in parliament continuously for forty-seven years (1826–1873), and was a member of Lord Derby's second cabinet (1866–1868) as Vice President of the Council and afterwards as First Lord of the Admiralty. Lowry-Corry was thus brought up in close touch with Conservative party politics, but it is said to have been his winning personality and social accomplishments rather than his political connections that recommended him to the favourable notice of Benjamin Disraeli, who in 1866 made Lowry-Corry his private secretary. From this time till the statesman's death in 1881 Corry maintained his connection with Disraeli, the relations between the two men being more intimate and confidential than usually subsist between a private secretary and his political chief.
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