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Low, Sampson, 1768-1800
GB-2014-WSA-11398 · Person · 1768-1800

LOW, SAMPSON, brother of Thomas Low (qv); bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 28 Mar 1768; adm. 21 Jan 1778; a printer and bookseller in Berwick Street, Soho; m.; d. 30 Dec 1800.

GB-2014-WSA-11397 · Person · 1928-2008

Low, Richard Cameron, son of Robert Wilfrid Low of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and Dorothy Alice, d. of Lieut. -Col. Francis Samuel Peck MRCS, surgeon, Indian Med. Service; b. 30 Mar. 1928; adm. Sept. 1941 (KS); left July 1946; RMA Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut RA Oct. 1948, Lieut. Oct. 1950; res. Sept. 1953; an insurance broker, General Northern Assurance; FCII 1959, FCIB (FBIBA) 1967; man. dir. Glanvill Enthoven & Co. (Nigeria) Ltd. 1957-64, dir. Glanvill Enthoven & Co. Ltd. 1970-9; man. dir., Midland Bank Insurance Brokers Ltd. 1979-83; author Tigress and the Rose 2003; m. 20 Dec. 1951 Sheila Mary, d. of Robert Jephson Hilary, asst. master at the Sch. and first housemaster of Busby’s; d. 17 Feb. 2008.

Low, Leonard, 1766-?
GB-2014-WSA-11396 · Person · 1766-?

LOW, LEONARD, brother of Thomas Low (qv); bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 4 Jul 1766; adm. 27 Jan 1777; m. 16 Nov 1797 Elizabeth Page, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London.

Low, John Philpot, 1910-1966
GB-2014-WSA-11395 · Person · 1910-1966

Low, John Philpot, son of Sir Stephen Philpot Low Kt, Solicitor to the Board of Trade, and Faith, d. of Rudolph Crosse; grandson of Sir Frederick Low (qv); b. 16 July 1910; adm. May 1924 (G); left July 1927; ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church 1939; RC Chaplain to the Forces 1944; parish priest Brewood, Staffs; d. 6 May 1966.

GB-2014-WSA-11394 · Person · 1913-1998

Low, Harold Philpot, brother of John Philpot Low (qv); b. 1 Feb. 1913; adm. Jan. 1927 (H); left July 1931; The Loyal Regt (TARO) 1939, attd Military Police 1939-45 (Lieut. Col., APM); TD; USA Legion of Merit; dir. Warne Wright & Rowland, screwmakers, Birmingham 1945, later Evers & Wall, Berks; m. 10 Oct. 1936 Audrey Cynthia, d. of William Ernest Falconer MB, med. practitioner, of Twyford, Berks.; d. 3 Dec. 1998.

Low, Frederick, 1856-1917
GB-2014-WSA-11393 · Person · 1856-1917

LOW, SIR FREDERICK, eldest son of Stephen Philpot Low, Sydenham, Kent, banker, and Hannah, dau. of Arthur Austin, Little Shelford, Cambs.; b. 21 Nov 1856; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G); left Aug 1871; adm. solicitor Apr 1878; practised in King Street, Cheapside, City of London, firm Turner and Low; adm. Middle Temple 16 May 1889, called to bar 30 Apr 1890, Bencher 26 Jan 1911; South-Eastern Circuit; KC 1902; Recorder of Ipswich 1906-15; a Commissioner of Assize 1912-5; contested (Liberal) Salisbury 1900 Clapham 1906; MP (Liberal) Norwich Jan 1910 – Jan 1915; knighted 1909; a Judge of the High Court, King’s Bench Division, from Jan 1915; m. 28 Jun 1882 Katherine, fourth dau. of Charles Thompson, Park Square, Regent’s Park, London; d. 4 Sep 1917.

GB-2014-WSA-11392 · Person · 1890-1972

Low, David Morrice, son of David Morrice Low, of Willesden Green, by Clara Felicia Dewhurst, daughter of Rev. William Nixon, of Liverpool; b. Sept. 14, 1890; adm. as (non­ resident) K.S. Sept. 22, 1904 (A); left July 1909; Oriel Coll. Oxon., scholar 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1911; 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1914; B.A. 1914; M.A. 1916; an asst. master at Marlborough 1914-9, at Westminster 1919-21; Rector of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, 1921-9; F.R.S. L.; served in the Air Ministry and Foreign Office 1945-57; Classical Lecturer, King's Coll. London; author of Gibbon's Journal (1929); London is London (1949); Norman Douglas, a Selection (1955); Abridgement of Gibbon's Decline and Fall (1960); m. 1st June 18, 1915, Heather Belle, daughter of Major Augustus Talbot Hancocks, of Wolverley Court, Worcs.; 2nd Jan. 4, 1956, Dorothy Margaret, only daughter of Robert W. Butters, of Bury St. Edmunds; d. 1972.

Loving, Richard, 1693-1751
GB-2014-WSA-11391 · Person · 1693-1751

LOVING, RICHARD, son of Thomas Loving, Deptford, Kent; bapt. 14 Dec 1693; adm.; QS 1707; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1712, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1712, aged 18, scholar 1 May 1713, matr. 1713; BA 1715/6; MA 1719; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1718, Major Fellow 10 Jul 1719; ordained; Rector of Barton Mills, Suffolk, from 1732; Rector of Herringswell, Suffolk, from 1741; m. 28 Oct 1724 Mary, dau. of Richard Thomas, Deptford, Kent; d. 1751 [will proved PCC 8 Jul 1751).

GB-2014-WSA-20894 · Person · 1923-D.D.

Lovett, Edward John William, son of Edward Rider Lovett, accountant, of Leatherhead, and Eleanor Florence, d. of William Young, librarian, of Leatherhead; b. 2 Jan. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (KS); left July 1941; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1941 but did not graduate; Roy. Signals 1943-7, attached IA 1945-7 (Capt.); a reinsurance broker, ACII 1949; dir. Rendtorff Worrall & Co. 1962; assoc. dir. Sterling Offices Ltd 1961, dir. 1970, man. dir. 1973, chairman 1974; man. dir. Alexander Howden Ins. Brokers Ltd 1976, retd 1980; m. 12 July 1952 Agustina Castroverde, broadcaster BBC Overseas Service, d. of Joaquin Perier, Prof. Univ. of Madrid.