Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke (1811–1892), was a British statesman, born in Nottinghamshire and educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford. He practised at the New South Wales bar and sat in the colony's legislative council from 1843 to 1850, returning to England in 1851.

He was later Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gladstone and was created Viscount Sherbrooke in 1880. His satirical verse on colonial land administration, drawn from his Australian years, was reprinted in Stedman's Victorian Anthology (1895).