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bishop and as inspector of schools. He was rector at Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, 1843-47. During the famine there in 1846, his medical training enabled him to serve as chairman of the relief committee of the district and for his ser- vices he received the thanks of the government and of the people. He was married Oct. 28, 1845, to Mary Ann, daughter of James and Har- riet (Constable) Duane of Duane, N.Y. He returned to the United States in 1847, on account of failing health, and did mission work among the poor in Newark, N.J. He organized Christ church, and in 1849-50 built a stone edifice, serving as rector, 1850-59. He was rector of Christ church, Duanesburg, N.Y., 1859-69; head master of St. Mark's school at Southboro, Mass., 1869-73, and professor of Latin language and literature at Union college, Schenectady, N.Y., 1873-79. He received the degree of D.D. from Union in 1864. He is the author of : Tlie New Priest in Conception Bay (2 vols., 1858) ; Fresh Hearts that Failed Three TJiousand Years Ago, and other Tilings (1860); Poems (1864) ; Antony Brade ( 1874) ; Burgoyne's March (the poem at the Saratoga Centennial celebration at Bemis Heights, 1877) ; A Story or Two from a Dutch Town (1878). He died in Schenectady, N.Y., Sept. 12, 1891.

LOWNDES, Arthur, clergyman and author, was born in London, England, June 13, 1858. He was educated at St. Germain-en-Laye, France, King's College school, and King's college, Lon- don. He came to America in 1880 and entered the ministry of the Anglican church, 1884, being

ordained deacon and priest in the cathe- dral church, Frederic- ton, N.B., by the Most Rev. the Metro- politan, Dr. John Medley. He was rector of Prince Wil- liam, 1884-89 ; in charge of Doane Memorial chapel. South Amboy, N.J., 1889-91 ; rector of St. Mark's, Philmont, N.Y., 1891-94; chap- lain of St. Gabriel's school, Peekskill, N.Y., 1894-98, and became rector of the Church of the Transfiguration, Freeport, N.Y., in 1898. He contributed to the Ameincan Church Review and the Church Eclectic, of which latter magazine be became editor in 1900. He received the degrees D.D. from Hobart and LL.D. from Rutherford in 1896. He is the author of : Vindication of Anglican Orders (2 vols. 1897). This work was sent out to all the bishops in Christendom not owing

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allegiance to the see of Rome with an encyclical printed in English and modern Greek dated June 24, 1899. This encyclical was the first issued in America and the first since the Reform- ation, by any Anglican bishops, and was signed by the bishops of Long Island, Springfield and Delaware.

LOWNDES, Charles, naval officer, was born in Kent county, Md., in 1798 ; son of Charles and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Lowndes. He entered the U.S. navy as a midshipman, March 18, 1815 ; was promoted lieutenant, Jan. 13, 1825 ; com- mander, Sept. 8, 1841 ; and captain, Sept. 14, 1855. He commanded the steam sloop Hartford,. 1860-61, and was placed on the retired list, Dec. 21, 1861. He was promoted commodore on the retired list July 16, 1862, and served as a prize commissioner, 1854-65. He was married, May 24, 1824, to Sally Scott, daughter of Gov. Edward and Sally Scott (Murray) Lloyd. Commodore Lowndes died in Easton, Md., Dec. 14, 1885.

LOWNDES, Lloyd, governor of Maryland, was born in Clarksburg, Va., Feb. 21, 1845; son of Lloyd and Maria Elizabeth (Moore) Lowndes ; grandson of Charles and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Lown- des ; and great-grandson of Gov. Edward Lloyd and of Christopher Lowndes, who emigrated from England, settling in Bladensburg, D.C., before the- national capital was located at Washington, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Benjamin Tasker. Lloyd attended Clarksburg academy, studied at Washington college. Pa., 1861-63, and was graduated from Allegheny college. Pa., with honors in 1865, and from the University of Tennessee, LL.B., 1867. He was married in December, 1869, to Elizabeth Tasker Lowndes and settled in Cumberland, Md., where his father had started in business. He was a Republican representative in the 43d congress, 1873-75, but. was defeated for re-election in 1874 by William Walsh. He was elected president of the Second National bank of Cumberland, Md., in 1873. He- was governor of Maryland, 1895-99, and was de feated in 1890 with the entire Republican ticket..

LOWNDES, Rawlins, president of South Car- olina, was born at St. Kitts, British West Indies, January, 1721 ; son of Charles and Ruth (Rawlins) Lowndes, and grandson of Charles and Sarah Lowndes, and of Henry Rawlins. His father settled in Charleston, S.C, in 1730. On his mother's return to St. Kitts in 1735, he vias placed in the family of Provost-Marshal Robert Hall, where he studied law. On Mr. Hall's death in 1740, the office of provost-marshal was temporarily filled until 1742, when Mr. Lowndes became of age and he was appointed to the office and held it until 1752. He commenced the practice of law in Charleston in 1752, was a member of the South Carolina legislature and subsequently speaker of