1-345-431 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, British statesman, c1890. First elected to Parliament as the Liberal MP for Kidderminster in 1852, Lowe (1811-1892) served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Home Secretary in the Gladstone administration of 1868-1874. When the Liberals returned to power in 1880 he was raised to the Lords as Viscount Sherbrooke but by then suffering from failing eyesight, rarely intervened in debates. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.