Viscount Sherbrooke (of Sherbrooke), Robert Lowe Biography (1811–92)

British politician, born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1842, when he emigrated to Australia and became prominent as a lawyer and politician. He returned to England in 1850, wrote editorials for The Times, and sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal (1852–80). He is best remembered for his defeat of the Reform Bill of 1866, which caused the fall of the Liberal Government. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gladstone, and in 1873 he became home secretary. He was created a viscount in 1880.

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