John Lowry

For the 19th-century baseball player, see John Lowry (baseball), for the film restorer see John D. Lowry.

John Terence Lowry is the General Secretary of the Workers' Party in Ireland. He is a native of the Lower Falls area of Belfast.

Lowry first stood for the Workers' Party in the Lagan Valley by-election, 1986. As the only candidate to challenge Jim Molyneaux of the Ulster Unionist Party, he picked up 9.3% of the vote.

Lowry stood again in Lagan Valley at the 1987 general election, but, facing several candidates, his vote dropped below 3%. For the 1992 general election he moved to contest Belfast West, and has contested this unsuccessfully at each subsequent election.

Lowry was also the Workers' Party's candidate in the Northern Ireland constituency at the European Parliament election in 1994, coming well down the field with only 0.45% of the votes cast. He topped the party's list in Belfast West for the Northern Ireland Forum election of 1996, and has contested the same seat at each election to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Lowry has also stood for Belfast City Council in the Lower Falls ward in each election since 1993.

John Lowry (Parliamentarian)

John Lowry (died 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He served in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.

Lowry was a chandler of Cambridge, and became a freeman of the city by apprenticeship. He became one of the Common Council of Cambridge and in November 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge in the Long Parliament, sharing the constituency with Oliver Cromwell. In the Civil War, Lowry became a colonel in the parliamentary army and in 1645 was seeking resources from the speaker of the Commons. He was then mayor of Cambridge and he came into dispute with Cambridge University when he refused to take the customary oath to maintain the rights of the University. The University appealed to the House of Lords. The matter was not resolved until 1647 when the House of Lords ruled in favour of the Vice-Chancellor and made a general order that the Mayor should respect the privileges of the University. In 1659 Lowry was re-elected MP for Cambridge in the Third Protectorate Parliament.

John Lowry (baseball)

John D. Lowry was an American professional baseball player who played for the Washington Nationals in 1875. He appeared in six games for the Nationals and hit .136.

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