LOW, Sir John (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar, Fifeshire). b. Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807; lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I. 1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848, col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years; political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853 to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May 1873. d. Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Kembach, Fifeshire. I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxi 93 (1880), portrait.
LOW, Sampson (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London, printer and publisher, d. 1800). b. London, Nov. 1797; bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169 Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875; chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire 1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75; published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. Publishers’ Circular 1 May 1886 pp. 431–3, portrait; Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp. 418–20.
LOW, Sampson (eld. son of preceding). b. London 6 July 1822; in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and 1870. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.
LOW, Thomas Bell (son of David Low). b. Birkenhead 1855; went to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant engineers in public works department Otago district, and architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. d. in the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. xci 450–51 (1888).
LOW, Walter (son of a publisher). b. England 1843; publisher and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4 April 1872. Times 8 April 1872 p. 7.
LOW, William. b. Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to 1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years; concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867, purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E. Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850. d. 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. bur. Brompton cemet. where is monument.
LOWDER, Charles Fuge (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath, banker, d. 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). b. 2 West Wing, Lansdowne crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school, London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East 22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated 30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission 1877. d. Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9 Sep. 1880. bur. Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. Charles Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa (1882), portrait; Church Portrait Journal, i 113 (1876), portrait.
LOWDER, Samuel Netterville. b. 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov. 1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866; commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5; D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 4 Manor road, Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.
LOWE, Abraham. b. July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810; captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. d. Cheltenham 10 April 1854. G.M. xlii 513 (1854).
LOWE, Ann Elizabeth (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge lane, Charing Cross, painter, d. in a poor lodging house in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). b. 1777; god daughter of Dr. Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. d. 5 Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger sister Frances Meliora Lowe b. 1783, d. 5 Minerva place 6 Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B. Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. Times 1 and 3 Nov. 1855; Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed. iv 385–93, 463 (1884).