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Biography: Lowry, Robert William

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Peter H. Hughes. 'Lowry, Robert William', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998, updated January 2002. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/127448/related-biographies (accessed 25 June 2026).