Background
MOWBRAY, Robert Gray Cornish was born on May 21, 1850 in London. Son of 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Gray, daughter of G. J. Mowbray of Mortimer, Berkshire. Succeeded father 1899.
MOWBRAY, Robert Gray Cornish was born on May 21, 1850 in London. Son of 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Gray, daughter of G. J. Mowbray of Mortimer, Berkshire. Succeeded father 1899.
Eton; Balliol College Oxford. 1st class Final Classical Schools, 1872.
Fellow of All Souls, 1873. President Oxford Union Society, 1873. Master of Arts (Oxf.), 1875.
Barrister Inner Temple, 1876.
Went the Oxford Circuit. Secretary to Royal Commission on Stock Exchange, 1877-1878.
Member of Parliament (Conservative) Prestwich Division of South-east Lancashire, 18S6-95. And Brixton Division of Lambeth, 1900-1906.
Parliamentary private secretary to Chancellor of Exchequer (Goschen), 1887-1892.
Member of Royal Commander on Opium, 1893- 1895, of Royal Commander on Indian Expenditure, 1896. Member of Court of the Goldsmiths Company. Prime Warden, 1898-1899.
Director of University Life Assurance Society.
Chairman of Quarter Sessions and Vice-Chairman of County Council for Berkshire. 2nd Baronet, cartulary-register 1880. Justice of the Peace, Doctorate.L.
Conservative.
Clubs: Athenaeum, Carlton, Oxford and Cambridge.