High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry PC (NI), often known as Robbie Lowry, (30 January 1919 ? 15 January 1999) was a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. On 18 July 1979, in the early months of the Thatcher Government, he was created Baron Lowry, of Crossgar in the County of Down. His father was former Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament and Attorney General for Northern Ireland William Lowry. His mother was niece of Sinn Féin activist, Robert Wilson Lynd. He attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Jesus College, Cambridge where he read Classics, achieving a double first.