Modern English biography

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