solicitor). _b._ 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death;
originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch
lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many
years. _d._ 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany.
1891.
LOW, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25
June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired
lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of
Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A
grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A
dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore
1836. _d._ 2 May 1852.
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).
LOWE, ARTHUR (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861).
_b._ Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April
1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April
1870; admiral 18 June 1876. _d._ 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke,
Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.
LOWE, EDWARD. _b._ Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England
about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the
first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at
14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64,
kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. _d._
14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. _The Figaro 10 March
1880 p._ 14; _The Chess-Monthly_, _April 1880 p._ 255.
LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM. The first scholar in anatomy and
physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house
surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to
death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to
medical journals. _d._ Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.
LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCY (youngest son of sir Hudson
Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). _b._ St. Helena
10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837,
lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and
in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21
foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col.
86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March
1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875;
author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore
1860. _d._ 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.
LOWE, GEORGE (son of a brewer at Derby). _b._ Derby 1788; an
early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the
Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862;
consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the
European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29
April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from
ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented
the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for
manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works
1831–52. _d._ 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. _Min.
of Proc. I.C.E. xxx_ 442–5 (1870).
LOWE, JAMES. _b._ Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an
auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political
union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police
Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped
by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed
1851, an advocate of temperance. _d._ Dundee 11 Nov. 1853.
_Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 153.
LOWE, JAMES. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London,
The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63;
contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries
of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a
Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by
himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de
Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of
Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing
Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from
the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close _d._ 16 Feb. 1891
aged 74. Lowe _d._ end of Oct. 1865.
LOWE, JAMES. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic
of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three
voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a
mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller
for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of
propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before
applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta
Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which
was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and
killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. _History of
the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart_ (1882);
_Mechanics’ Mag. xli_ 443, 461 (1844).
LOWE, JOSIAH BEATSON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude,
Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth
park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880
to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews
1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849;
Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The
controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879.
_d._ Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.
LOWE, PATRICK. _b._ 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot;
formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally
captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he
obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a
medal with 13 clasps. _d._ Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.
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.
LOWRIE, WALTER. _b._ Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S.
of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years;
senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary
of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. _d._ New York 14 Dec. 1868.
LOWRY, JAMES CORRY (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co.
Tyrone). _b._ 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb.
1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to
death. _d._ 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.
LOWRY, JOSEPH WILSON (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver
1762–1824). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific
subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana,
Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval
Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s
Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of
Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine
views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved
Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged,
1853. _d._ 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879.
_Nature_, _ii_ 197 (1879).
LOWRY, THOMAS KENNEDY. Ed. at Belfast academical institution,
and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D.
1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown
prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867;
a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary
at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster
1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of
Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint
author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and
orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in
Ireland 1842. _d._ Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July
1872. _Irish law times_, _vi_ 439 (1872).
LOWTH, JOHN JACKSON. _b._ 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824;
ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death,
commanded his regiment in Crimean war. _d._ at Portsmouth one
hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.
LOWTH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819;
captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24
Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28
Sep. 1858. _d._ Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.
LOWTHER, GORGES (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge,
Dublin, _d._ 1785). _b._ 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May
1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the
Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief
observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon
their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2
vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter
on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. _d._ Hampton hall,
Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 535 (1854); _Proceedings in
King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt_
1805.
LOWTHER, HENRY CECIL (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844).
_b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at
Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side
_v._ W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches
several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with
a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot
20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland
militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P.
Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the
House.’ _d._ Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867.
_Cricket Scores_, _i_ 399 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _Sporting
Review_, _lix_ 8 (1868).
LOWTHER, SIR JOHN HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther,
1 Baronet 1759–1844). _b._ 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth
1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and
1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding
militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire
1852. _d._ 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.
LOWTHROP, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall,
east riding of Yorkshire). _b._ Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull
1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. _d._ Nice 19
Dec. 1853.
LOY, JOHN GLOVER (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). _b._ Whitby
1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby
64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in
performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis
de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the
origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice
both in England and abroad. _d._ 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep.
1865.
LOYD, LEWIS (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co.
Carmarthen). _b._ 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting
chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones
of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones,
Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. _d._
at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left
£3,000,000. _Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p._ 499.
LUARD, HENRY (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall,
Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, _d._ 23 May 1836). _b._ 4 Dec.
1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager
of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial
of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life
association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841.
_d._ 1856. _Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp._ 1–11, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p._ 382, _view of testimonial_.