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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, THOMAS HILL PEREGRINE FURYE, eldest son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe (qv); b. 21 Dec 1781; in school list 1797; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Nov 1799; BA 1805; MA 1818; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Feb 1804; ordained deacon 1808, priest 1810; Curate, Shelsley, Worcs.; Vicar of Grimley, Worcs., 9 Feb 1820-32; Rector of Holdgate, Shropshire 1818-32; Rector of Silvington, Shropshire 4 Sep 1827-33; Joint Registrar, Diocese of Worcester 21 Dec 1827 – still 1846; Prebendary and Precentor of Exeter 14 Sep 1832- Aug 1839; Rector of Holy Trinity, Exeter, Devon 27 Jan 1837-40; Dean of Exeter from 2 Aug 1839; Vicar of Littleham, Devon 8 Sep 1840-3; Vicar of Colyton Raleigh, Devon, from 1843; JP Shropshire; m. 25 Feb 1808 Ellen Lucy, eldest dau. of George Pardoe, Nash Court, Shropshire; d. 17 Jan 1861.

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, MORGAN, second son of Charles Lowe (BB 1690, qv); b.; in school list 1731; apprenticed to John Freke, barber-surgeon 1738; d. 6 Oct 1739, aged 17. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

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.