Frederick Low (British politician)
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Sir Frederick Low KC was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal Party
Liberal Party (UK)
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 politician.

Low was educated privately and at Westminster School
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. He qualified as a solicitor in 1878, and was called to the bar in 1890, practising on the South-Eastern Circuit and becoming an authority on local government
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 and licensing.
He became a King's Counsel in 1902,
and became recorder
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 of Ipswich
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 in 1906.
He was knighted in 1909.

At the 1900 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1900
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, Low unsuccessfully contested Salisbury
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, and he was unsuccessful again when he contested Clapham
Clapham (UK Parliament constituency)
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 in 1906
United Kingdom general election, 1906
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. He won a seat on his third attempt, when he was elected at the January 1910 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament
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 (MPs) for Norwich
Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)
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.
He was re-elected in December 1910,
and held the seat until January 1915, when he was appointed as a Judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court.

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