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678 Fencibles in the river Medway; where he remained until ordered, in June, 1809, to join the 74, Capt, Rich. Jones, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition to the Scheldt. In June, 1810, he was again (in the ) placed under the orders of Sir Robt. Calder, then Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, who successively invested him, 9 Nov. 1812, and 20 Jan. and 29 March, 1813, with the charge of the, , and sloops. In the first-mentioned of those vessels he retook a West Indiaman that had been only the night before captured by a French frigate; and conducted safely info Bristol and Liverpool a convoy for which he had been sent to cruize between the 44th and 47th degrees of West longitude. He was confirmed in his present rank on the occasion of Sir Robt. Calder hauling down his flag 29 Oct. 1813; and has since been on half-pay.

During his career afloat Commander Lowcay was at times employed at the blockade of Brest, Rochefort, Ferrol, Corunna, Cadiz, Minorca, Genoa, Toulon, Alexandria, and Smyrna. He was for 11 months off Rochefort, without once returning to port. He married, 3 May, 1836, Miss E. B. Steere, of Plymouth.

 LOWCAY. 

is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Inglis and Bedford; and in the course of the same year became Midshipman of the and, Lieut.-Commanders Todman and Woodger, lying at Portsmouth. He next, from Feb. 1807 to Sept. 1810, served on board the 98, Capts. Wm. Lechmere, Geo. Burgoyne Salt, and Valentine Collard, also on the Home station; where, during a period of nearly three years, he was further employed in the 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham,  32, Capt. G. B. Salt,  sloop, commanded by his brother, Capt. Henry Lowcay, and, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Calder. Proceeding then to the Cape of Good Hope in the 64, bearing the flag of the late Sir Chas. Tyler, he was by that officer nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 8 Feb. 1814, of the sloop, Capt. Allen, and on the occasion of his official promotion, 7 Feb. 1815, received as his Signal-Lieutenant into the  74. He returned home in April, 1816; and was afterwards appointed – 5 Feb. 1820, to the 28, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, fitting for the Newfoundland station – 11 Sept. 1823, to the  80, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, lying at Sheerness – 16 Dec. 1823 and 31 Jan. 1824, to the and, Capts. Jas. Nash and Chas. Inglis, both at Portsmouth – next, to the Preventive Service – 25 April, 1834, to the Ordinary at Portsmouth – 1 Aug. 1836, again to the, Capt. Thos. Searle – 13 Feb. 1837, to the command of the 10, in South America, where he was superseded in Oct. 1839 – 27 Aug. 1841, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the  72, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, guard-ship at Chatham – and, 16 March, 1844, in a similar capacity, to the surveying-vessel, Capt. Thos. Saumarez Brock, on the Mediterranean station. Lieut. Lowcay has been on half-pay since 20 Oct. in the latter year.

His eldest daughter is the wife of

 LOWCAY. 

, born 21 Sept. 1787, at Chatham, co. Kent, is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1796, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. John Holloway, under whom he continued to serve as Midshipman, on the Channel station, until April, 1798. He re-embarked, in July, 1802, as Master’s Mate, on board the 36, Capt. Wm. Cumberland; and, in July, 1804, after having been for 12 months attached to the 74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham, he joined the 74, Capts. Lord Viscount Garlics, Christopher Laroche, Wm. Brown, and John Pilfold. He was in consequence present, during the year 1805, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, also in Admiral Comwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest, and in the battle of Trafalgar. After further serving with Capt. Laroche in the 38, and with Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin in the 74, he was appointed, 21 Sept. 1807, and 3 March, 1808, Sub-Lieutenant of the  and  gun-brigs, Lieut.Commanders John Gregory and Jas. Hugh Talbot. In the boats belonging to the former of those vessels Mr. Lowcay was engaged in frequent attacks on the enemy’s convoys on the French coast; and on one occasion he was slightly wounded. Being created a full Lieutenant, 25 March, 1809, of the 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman, he accompanied the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren, where he was lent to the gun-boat service. On his return he was successively, until the peace of 1814, employed, always on the Home station, in the 18, Capt. D. Winter,, flagship of Sir Robt. Calder, 74, Capt. Henry Vansittart,  44, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hargood, and 14, Capt. Hargrave. He served next, from 27 April to 15 June, 1815, in the 10, commanded at Plymouth by Capt. Robt. Julyan; and from 29 Nov. 1820 until 5 July, 1833, had charge of a station in the Coast Guard. He accepted his present rank 9 April, 1847.

Commander Lowcay married, 14 June, 1814, Mary Anne, sister of, and by that lady, who died 1 Dec. 1844, has issue two sons and one daughter.

 LOWE. 

was born in July, 1771.

This officer (whose name had been borne from 1777 to 1779 on the books of the, Capt. Geo. Murray) embarked, in Jan. 1791, as Midshipman (under the auspices of the late Sir Erasmus Gower), on board the 98, Capt. Geo. Blagden Westcott, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall in the Channel. In the following Oct. he joined the 74, Capts. Anthony Jas. Pye Molloy and Albemarle Bertie; and on becoming Master’s Mate, in 1792, of the 64, commanded by his patron Sir E. Gower, he sailed with Lord Macartney on his embassy to China, and while there was intrusted with the charge of the  tender. Being promoted, on his return home, to a Lieutenancy, 24 Nov. 1794, in the 74, Capt. Sir E. Gower, he was present in that ship, which bore the brunt of the enemy’s attack, in Cornwallis’ celebrated retreat of 16 and 17 June, 1795. His succeeding appointments, it appears, were – 22 June, 1797, to the 38, Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan, on the Channel station – 18 Dec. following to the 98, Capts. Sir E. Gower and Jas. Vashon, in which ship he proceeded to the Mediterranean – 31 July, 1800, as Senior, to the 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, under the latter of whom (after having witnessed the capture of two privateers carrying between them 32 guns and 287 men, and of L’Aurore national corvette of 16 guns) he bore a part in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action of 12 July, 1801, in the Gut of Gibraltar – in Oct. of the latter year, to the 98, bearing the flag of Sir E. Gower in the Channel – 31 Jan. 1804 (he had been for nearly two years on half-pay), to the command of the  gun-brig in the North Sea – 22 May, 1804, to the  50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Sir E. Gower, who in 1806 authorized him to act as Magistrate and Surrogate for that island – and in July, 1807, to the  98, bearing the flag of the late Lord Gambier. Being First of the latter