# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-lowe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:36:04.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-lowe"
name: "Robert Lowe"
slug: "robert-lowe"
description: "Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, GCB, PC, was a British statesman and Liberal politician who helped shape British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office under William Ewart Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1868 and 1873 and as Home Secretary between 1873 and 1874. Lowe is remembered for his work in education policy, his opposition to electoral reform and his contribution to modern UK company law. Gladstone appointed Lowe as Chancellor expecting him to hold down public spending. Public spending rose, and Gladstone pronounced Lowe \"wretchedly deficient\"; most historians agree. Lowe repeatedly underestimated the revenue, enabling him to resist demands for tax cuts and to reduce the national debt instead. He insisted that the tax system be fair to all classes. By his own main criterion of fairness — that the balance between direct and indirect taxation remain unchanged — he succeeded. Even in his time, however, this concept of fiscal incidence was obsolescent."
tagline: "British statesman and colonial Australian politician (1811-1892)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Lowe%2C_1st_Viscount_Sherbrooke_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1811-12-04"
deathDate: "1892-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             8.820656970720288
  historical:           7.911954666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowe%2C_1%3Ae_viscount_Sherbrooke"
    title: "Robert Lowe, 1:e viscount Sherbrooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "روبيرت لو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowe"
    title: "Robert Lowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowe%2C_1._Viscount_Sherbrooke"
    title: "Robert Lowe, 1. Viscount Sherbrooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowe"
    title: "Robert Lowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowe"
    title: "Robert Lowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertus_Lowe%2C_primus_Vicecomes_Sherbrooke"
    title: "Robertus Lowe, primus Vicecomes Sherbrooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowe"
    title: "Robert Lowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%2C_1-%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA"
    title: "Лоу, Роберт, 1-й виконт Шербрук"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump