Robert Lowe

Lowe studied at Oxford, where he later worked for a time as a teacher. In January 1842 he was the bar in London; but he wandered in the same year to Australia, where he soon brought it to a spread practice and belonged from 1843 to 1851 of the Legislative Assembly of the colony of New South Wales. He took a prominent part in the deliberations of the laws on the distribution of state lands and created a lesson plan that was used in the organization of the school system almost throughout Australia as the basis.

Returned to England in 1851, he set out by article about colonial relationships in the Times known, was in 1852 elected to the House of Commons and led there by a brilliant speech against the budget presented by Benjamin Disraeli one. The new Ministry Aberdeen awarded him the post of secretary at the Indian office, which he held until February 1855. After the departure of Lord Palmerston, he was appointed in August as Vice President of the Commercial Office, Paymaster General and member of the Privy Council.

In the election in March 1857, where the People's Party violently resisted him, because he had his promise to work for extension of the suffrage and other popular measures, not held, he continued his but repeated election as representative of Kidderminster with the help of the Conservatives by, was However, such mistreated by the people that he barely saved his life.

The fall of Palmerston in February 1858 also drew the resignation Lowes after himself, so he stepped on the side of the opposition, which demanded parliamentary reform. In 1859, he joined as Vice President of the teaching council in the new cabinet Palmerston, but had in 1864 because of a censure vote requested by Lord R. Cecil resign because he should have the reports of school inspectors disfigured tendentious, which, however, due to closer examination proved to be inaccurate.

At the government had not adequately supported him on this occasion, he retaliated in 1866 by a significant contribution through his brilliant and dashing eloquence to the rejection of Gladstone Russell Reform Bill; he was then the real leaders of the so-called after John Bright mocking expression Adullamiten.

When Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, step to the formation of a cabinet in July 1866 Lowe refused, however, from the entrance and was opposed with equal sharpness in the Disraelischen Reform Bill. 1868 elected by the University of London as its first representative to the House, he resigned in December as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Gladstone Cabinet.

His financial administration was marked by great frugality, but was not very popular, so Gladstone in autumn 1873 took over the office itself and Lowe made ​​to the Minister of the Interior, which post he held until the resignation of the Liberals in February 1874. In Gladstone's second ministry Lowe did not happen, but was charged for it with the title of Viscount Sherbrook the peer and transferred to the House of Lords.