Editing Martin Lowry (section)

==Biography==
Lowry was born in [[Low Moor, Bradford]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England, in a [[Cornish people|Cornish]] family. He was the second son of the Reverend E. P. Lowry who was the minister of the [[Wesleyan Church, Aldershot|Wesleyan Church]] in [[Aldershot]] from 1892 to 1919. He was educated at [[Kingswood School]], [[Bath, Somerset]], and then at the [[Central Technical College]] in [[South Kensington]]. During those years he realized that he wanted to be a chemist. He studied [[chemistry]] under [[Henry Edward Armstrong]], an English chemist whose interests were primarily in [[organic chemistry]] but also included the nature of [[ion]]s in [[aqueous solution]]s. From 1896 to 1913 Lowry was assistant to Armstrong, and between 1904 and 1913 worked as lecturer in chemistry at the [[Westminster Training College]]. In 1913, he was appointed head of the chemical department in [[Guy’s Hospital]] Medical and became the first teacher of chemistry in a Medical School to be made a University Professor, at the [[University of London]]. From 1920 till his death, Lowry served as the [[1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry|Chair of Physical Chemistry]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]. He married a daughter of the Rev. C. Wood in 1904 and was survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter.<ref name=r1/>

Since the establishment of the Faraday Society in 1903, Lowry had been its active member and served as its president between 1928 and 1930. In 1914 he was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Society]].<ref name="frs"/> During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as director of shell-filling (1917–1919) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee. For this service, he was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire]] and the [[Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]].<ref name=r1/>