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Rh ship in the ensuing attack upon Copenhagen, Lieut. Lowe, at the conclusion of the operations, was nominated by his Admiral to the command, 13 Oct. 1807, of the sloop. This appointment the Admiralty confirmed. From Dec. in the same year, however, until June, 1809, Capt. Lowe remained unemployed. He then volunteered to serve in the expedition against Walcheren, and his offer being accepted he was intrusted by Sir Rich. Strachan with the command of a division of the light flotilla engaged at the bombardment of Camvere, and by his conduct won the admiration of that officer. After the surrender of Camvere and the reduction of the fort of Bammekens, we find him employed in cutting off the communication between Flushing and Cadsand; and then assisting Sir Home Popham in sounding and buoying the channels of the West Scheldt for the purpose of enabling the line-of-battle ships and frigates to advance, and of thus aiding the ulterior objects of the expedition – a service performed with much judgment and correctness. During his stay in the Scheldt, Capt. Lowe was invested by Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway with the charge, in Nov. 1809, of the sloop. His next appointments were – 12 Jan. 1810, to the 16, attached to the force in the Baltic, where he was most actively employed, and effected the capture of three or four Danish privateers – and 12 Aug. 1812, to the  18. He served in the latter vessel on the Cork and Jamaica stations until posted 7 June, 1814; and with the exception of a few months during the summer of 1815, had command, from 12 Jan. in that year until paid off 19 Jan. 1819, of the 20, among the Western Islands, and in the Channel and West Indies. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Commander Lowe married, in 1802, a daughter of R. Rogers, Esq., of Beaulieu, near Southampton; by whom he has had, with other issue, two sons, the present, and the late  – J. Hinxman.

 LOWE. 

, born 26 July, 1814, at Corfton, co. Salop, is third son of the Rev. Thos. Hill Peregrine Furye Lowe, D.D. (of Court of Hill, Salop, and Norbiton House, Surrey), Dean of Exeter, by Ellen Lucy, eldest daughter of Geo. Pardee, Esq., of Nash Court, Salop; and nephew, by marriage, of Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, R.N., Kt.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 April, 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Martin; sailed soon afterwards for the Lisbon station in the 74, Capt. Henry Hill; was employed in the Mediterranean as Midshipman, from 1828 to 1832, in the  10, Capt. Thos. Hastings, and 78, Capt. John Dick; then rejoined Capt. Hastings in the  gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, where he passed his examination in July, 1833; and after a servitude of about three years in the East Indies and on the north coast of Spain in the  28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, and  steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 Sept. 1837. On 28 of the following Nov. he obtained an appointment to the 28, Capt. Henry Smith, fitting at Chatham; and on 2 Feb. 1838 he joined the  72, Capts. Fras. Erskine Loch and John Lawrence. In that ship he served in the Mediterranean until advanced to the rank of Commander 28 Aug. 1841. His last appointment was, 3 June, 1842, to the Second-Captaincy of the, still commanded by his uncle, with whom he continued until promoted to his present rank 30 Aug. 1845. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 LOWE. 

, born 30 Oct. 1811, is son of Wm. Lowe, Esq., of the firm of J. and W. Lowe, Attorneys, 2, Tanfield Court, Temple.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 3 March, 1825; and embarked, 2 Dec. 1826, as a Volunteer, on board the 18, Capts. Wm. Symonds, Chas. Crole, and John Townshend, stationed at first in the Channel, and afterwards in North America, where, in Sept. 1828, he removed for a short time, as a Supernumerary, to the 46, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle. From the early part of 1829 until 1831, in the course of which year he passed his examination, we find him employed in the Mediterranean on board the and  frigates, Capts. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, Edm. Lyons, and Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley. He then proceeded to South America in the 28, Capt. Chas. Henry Paget; and in Aug. 1834, on the departure of that ship for England, he accompanied an expedition sent from Lima to Para under the orders of Lieutenant Smyth for the purpose of exploring the Pachitca, Maranon, and Ucayali rivers. On his arrival in England in the spring of 1835, Mr. Lowe found that his name had been allowed to remain until then on the books of the. Sailing soon afterwards for the East Indies in the 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, which ship carried out Lord Auckland as Governor-General, he there joined the 52, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, by whom he was presented with a commission dated 17 Nov. 1837. He came home in June, 1838; and was next appointed – 14 Sept. following, as Additional, to the 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget in North America and the West Indies – 28 March, 1839, to the steam-vessel, Capt. Joseph Sherer, with whom he served for two years on the same station, half the time as First-Lieutenant – and in Aug. and Sept. 1841, in the latter capacity, to the  and  steamers, commanded by Capt. Hastings Reginald Henry at Home and in the Mediterranean. On leaving the last-mentioned vessel, he assumed command, 23 Feb. 1843, of the, as he has since done, 10 Aug. 1844 (after nearly 12 months of half-pay), and 21 June, 1845, of the and  – all of them steamers. He is now employed on particular service. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 LOWE. 

is son of

This officer entered the Navy, 12 April, 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, commanded by his father, with whom he served in the Channel until Feb. 1817, in the course of which month he entered the Royal Naval College. He re-embarked, in April, 1819, as Midshipman, on board the 20, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, and during the next three years was actively employed in the suppression of smuggling. He then joined the 28, Capts. Peter Fisher and Lord Henry Fred. Tbynne, successively stationed at Nevrfoundland, and in the North Sea, West Indies, Mediterranean, and Channel; and in July, 1825, having passed his examination in 1823, he became Mate of the 18, Capts. Jas. Scott and Chas. Elliot. Of that vessel, on her arrival in the West Indies, he was appointed, in Feb. 1816, Acting First-Lieutenant. Being confirmed to her, 2 Dec. following, he continued in the until transferred, in Jan. 1829, in a similar capacity, to the  10, Capts. Chas. Rich and Joseph Pafford Dickson Larcom, also on the West India station; where, in the summer of 1830, he removed to the 20, Capt. Chas. Parker. Returning to England in Jan. 1831, he was next, 7 July, 1834, appointed First-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Wm. Barrow, with the boats of which sloop under his orders he was twice, it appears, engaged with pirates in the Straits of Malacca. In the autumn of 1837, Capt. Barrow having invalided at the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. Lowe was sent home in personal command of the. After eight months of half-pay he became in succession Senior, 11 July, 1838, and 11 May, 1839, of the 24 and  76, Capts. Chas. Hamlyn