Modern English biography

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,