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British Army officer and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel Henry William Lowry-Corry DL, JP (30 June 1845 – 6 May 1927), styled The Honourable from birth, was a British Army officer and Conservative politician.
Born at Castle Coole, County Fermanagh on 30 June 1845 and baptised at the local parish church at Derryvullen a month later, he was the youngest son of Armar Lowry-Corry, 3rd Earl Belmore and his wife Emily Louise Shepherd, youngest daughter of William Shepherd.[1] Lowry-Corry was educated at Eton College and then at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[2] Thereafter he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1866 and a Master of Arts four years later.[3] He lived at Edwardstone Hall in Suffolk. There is a memorial to him in the church of St Mary the Virgin in Edwardstone.
Lowry-Corry was commissioned into the 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards, serving in the Suakin Expedition in 1885, for which he received the Egypt Medal with a clasp and the Khedive's Star.[4] In 1903, he retired as colonel.[5] He entered the British House of Commons in 1873, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for County Tyrone until 1880.[6] Lowry-Corry was a deputy lieutenant for Suffolk[7] and represented it also as a justice of the peace.[2] He was chairman of the county's Quarter Sessions, a vice-chairman of the Territorial Force Association.[5]
On 21 September 1876, he married Hon. Blanche Edith Wood, daughter of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax by his wife Lady Mary Grey, fifth daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey[8] and had issue:[9]
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