LOWE, Richard Grove (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St. Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans district 1845 to death. d. St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June 1872.
LOWE, Richard Thomas. b. 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death; author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851; A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2, 1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; drowned in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly Islands about 13 April 1874.
LOWE, Robert Manley (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J. and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). b. 24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe 1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R. L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in 1793 for the protection of the legal profession. d. 48 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. Solicitors’ Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p. 819.
LOWE, Thomas Hill Peregrine Furye (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., d. 10 Nov. 1797). b. Bromsgrove 21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley, Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs. 1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839; canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death, installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon 1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church 1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon 1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon. d. the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.
LÖWENTHAL, Johann Jacob (son of a merchant). b. Buda-Pesth, July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849; went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death; won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament 1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862; edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9; naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W. Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association 1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A collection of games played 1864. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 July 1876. Illust. news of the world, viii 164 (1861), portrait; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.
LOWER, Mark Anthony (2 son of the succeeding). b. Chiddingly, Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes 1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846, hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes 1865. d. Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. bur. St. Ann’s churchyard, Lewes. Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists (1877); M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica (1860), portrait.
LOWER, Richard (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge owner). b. Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree, selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. d. High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.
LOWNDES, Jefferson (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford). b. 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875; commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83; stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and 1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. Sporting Mirror, Jany. 1882 pp. 205–7, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, xvii 444 (1882), portrait; Graphic, xxviii 84 (1883), portrait.
LOWNDES, William Loftus (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose hill, Dorking, Surrey). b. April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P. Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. d. 48 Westbourne terrace, London 6 April 1865.
LOWREY, Daniel (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary, to Leeds). b. 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871; built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. d. Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemetery 5 July.