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.

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.

[1] Lowry-Corry was educated at Eton College and then at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Coldstream Guards, serving in the Suakin Expedition in 1885, for which he received the Egypt Medal with a clasp and the Khedive's Star.

[5] He entered the British House of Commons in 1873, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for County Tyrone until 1880.

Memorial to Henry Lowry-Corry in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Edwardstone