Robert Lowry (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry KCB (4 March 1854 – 29 May 1920) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth.

Naval career
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Lowry was made a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1875. He became naval aide-de-camp to the King in 1905 and commanded the battleship HMS Russell in 1906 before becoming Rear Admiral Channel Fleet in April 1907 and President of the Royal Naval War College at Portsmouth in November 1907. He was made Commander of the 5th Cruiser Squadron in November 1908, Commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in February 1909 and then Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth in July 1913, serving in that role into World War I and until 1916. He retired in 1917 to his home at Wickham Lodge at Wickham in Hampshire.