Henry Lowry-Corry (1845–1927)
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. Background. 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. Lowry-Corry was educated at Eton College and then at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 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. He lived at Edwardstone Hall in Suffolk. There is a memorial to him in the church of St Mary the Virgin in Edwardstone. Career. 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. In 1903, he retired as colonel. He entered the British House of Commons in 1873, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for County Tyrone until 1880. Lowry -Corry was a Deputy Lieutenant for Suffolk and represented it also as a Justice of the Peace. He was chairman of the county's Quarter Sessions, a vice-chairman of the Territorial Force Association. Family. 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 and had issue: