Modern English biography

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