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.

Born the son of Lieutenant General Robert William Lowry and educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Lowry was made a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1875. By then a captain, in early 1902 he was in command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Ramillies, flagship of the second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. The following May he was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Hood, also serving in the Mediterranean. 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.