Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry

Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry, PC (NI) (30 January 1919 – 15 January 1999), was a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.Knighted in 1971, he was created a life peer as Baron Lowry, of Crossgar in the County of Down on 18 July 1979, in the early months of the Thatcher government.

His father was former Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament and Attorney General for Northern Ireland William Lowry. His mother was niece of Sinn Féin activist, Robert Wilson Lynd. He attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Jesus College, Cambridge where he read Classics, achieving a double first.

During the Second World War, he fought with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Tunisia, followed by the Royal Irish Fusiliers before becoming a Major in 1945.

He has since held the title of Honorary Colonel for

He was admitted to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1947. He was a High Court Judge in Northern Ireland from 1964 until he became Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in 1971, when he was also made a Northern Ireland Privy Counsellor.

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