Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lowry
PC
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
In office
1971–1989
Preceded byThe Lord MacDermott
Succeeded bySir Brian Hutton
Personal details
Born30 January 1919
Died15 January 1999 (aged 79)

Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry, PC, PC (NI) (30 January 1919 – 15 January 1999), was a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.[1] He was knighted in 1971,[2] and created a life peer in 1979.[1][3]

The son of a former Attorney-General for Northern Ireland, Lowry was educated in Belfast and at Cambridge. After serving in the British Army during the Second World War, he was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1947 and appointed to the High Court of Northern Ireland in 1964.

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