LOWNDES, RICHARD, brother of Layton Lowndes (qv); b.; adm. (aged 7) Sep 1727; KS 1734; left 1736; Lieut., Royal Navy 27 Jan 1747/8; m. 1751 Bridget, dau. of William Dalston, Great Salkeld, Cumberland; d. on board HMS Newcastle in Madras Roads 14 Apr 1758.

LOWER, RICHARD, second son of Humphrey Lower, Tremeere, Bodmin, Cornwall, and Margery, dau. of Richard Billing, Hengar, St. Tudy, Cornwall; bapt. 29 Jan 1631/2; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; BA 17 Feb 1652/3; MA 1655; MB and MD 1665; assisted Dr. Willis in the preparation of his book Cerebri Anatome Nervorumque Descriptio et Usus, 1664; left Oxford in 1666 and commenced medical practice in London; the most noted physician of his day; FRS 17 Oct 1667; FRCP 29 Jul 1675; a pronounced Whig in politics; a skilful anatomist and experimental physiologist; the first to transfuse blood from one animal into the veins of another; author, Tractatus de Corde, 1669, and two other medical treatises; m. 17 Nov 1666 (IGI) his cousin Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Trelawny, and dau. of John Billing, Hengar, St. Tudy, Cornwall; d. 17 Jan 1690/1. DNB.

Lowenstein, John Gerald, son of Julius Lowenstein, metal merchant, and Ellen Doris, d. of Myrtil Hanan of New York, USA; b. 8 Aug. 1938; adm. Sept. 1952 (G); left July 1956; a metal merchant and co. dir.; m. 18 Dec. 1962 Vivien, d. of Heinz Lissauer, co. dir.; d. 1 Aug. 2002.

Lowenstein, Edgar, son of Gottfried Lowenstein, of Hampstead, b. Jan. 6, 1904; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (H); left July 1921; a stockbroker; served with R. A. 1939 until invalided out 1941; m. 1933, Jane Hessmann, of New York; d. May 1962.

LOWEN, JOHN, son of Daniel Lowen, Gerpins (or Gerberville), Rainham, Essex, and Susan, dau. of John Turke, Wrotham, Kent; bapt. 25 Mar 1613; adm.; KS 1629; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1633, matr. 29 Nov 1633, aged 19, Westminster Student to expulsion by Parliamentary Visitors 1650; BA 1637; MA 1640; BCL 1642; DCL 1660; adm. Gray’s Inn 13 Nov 1635, called to bar 29 Jun 1655; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 4 Nov 1664; official, Archdeaconry of Winchester; Principal Registrar to Bishop of Winchester from 1664; of Gerpins, Essex; JP Essex (CSP Dom 1665-6, 155); buried St. Olave, Hart Street, London 20 Mar 1677/8.

LOWE, THOMAS HUMPHREY, son of Rev. Thomas Lowe, Second Chaplain, Chelsea Hospital, and his first wife Elizabeth, sister of Peregrine Furye (qv); b.; adm. 12 Jan 1767; KS (aged 14) 1768; Ensign, 58th Foot 10 Jun 1772; Lieut., 2 Apr 1777; still in Armyn List 1780, not 1782; m. 2 Apr 1780 Lucy, elder dau. of Thomas Hill MP, Court of Hill, Shropshire; d. 10 Nov 1797.

Lowe, Stanley Philip, brother of Herbert Ross Lowe (q.v.); b. Sept. 17, 1883; adm. April 28, 1898 (H); left April 1901; Victoria Univ. Manchester; temp. 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. July 12, 1915; Lieut. June 23, 1916; acting Capt. July 7, 1917; served in France and Flanders; men­tioned twice in despatches; O.B.E. June 3, 1919; a civil engineer at Sougher, British East Africa; m. Elinor Constance Partridge.

Lowe, Richard Geoffrey Harvey, brother of Lionel Harold Harvey Lowe (q.v.); b. June 11, 1904; adm. April 26, 1918 (H); Captain of the School 1922; elected to Trin, Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1923, matric. Michaelmas 1923; played football (Association) against Oxford 1923-6; Hon. Sec. C. U. A. F. C. 1924, Capt. 1926; played cricket against Oxford 1925-7; B, A. 1926; a schoolmaster at Farnborough Preparatory School, Rants.; Head Master of The Wick and Parkfield School, Haywards Heath, Sussex; m. June 1, 1929, Joan Dorothy, daughter of Major Cyril Lewis, of West Byfleet, Surrey; d. 5 July 1986.

Lowe, Sir Lionel Harold Harvey, elder son of Lionel Harvey Lowe, of Bromley, Kent, by Florence Edith, daughter of Thomas Watts, of Thurnby, Leics; b. Dec. 28, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (H); elected to Trin. Goll. Gamb. (with Samwaies) July 1916, matric. Easter 1919; 1st class Mathematical Tripos, pt. i, 1920; 2nd class Economics Tripos, div. 2, pt. ii, 1921; B.A. 1921; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. April 1, 1917, Lieut. Oct. 1, 1918; served in France and Belgium with 156th Heavy Battery July 1917 - Aug. 5, 1918, when he was wounded at Boe­ schepe; chartered accountant; A. C. A. 1929; F. GA. 1940; partner in Thomson McLintock & Co. 1935-46; director of finance, Cereals Divn., Ministry of Food, 1939-42; director of finance, Ministry of Fuel, 1942-5; member of the National Coal Board 1946; member of the Hops Marketing Board; director of Milford Docks Co. 1954; knighted 1951; m. Sept. 19, 1925, Marjorie, only daughter of Arthur Forward, of Bickley, Kent; d. Aug. 30, 1960.

Lowe, Lawrence Edward, brother of John Christopher Burpee Lowe (qv); b. Toronto, Canada, 29 Mar. 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (G), (KS) 1947; left July 1951; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1951, BA 1954, MA 1958; returned to Canada for post-grad. studies at Macdonald Coll., PQ; McGill Univ., Canada, 1957-63, MSc 1960, PhD 1963; a soil chemist, Alberta, Canada 1963-6; asst. Prof. of Soils, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada 1966, assoc. Prof. 1970, Prof. 1975-94, Prof. Emeritus 1994-; m. 25 Aug. 1956 Rosemary Powell-Evans, laboratory technician, d. of John Powell-Evans MRCS LRCP, of Wimbledon; d. 17 June 2016.