Lowry, Esq., of Pomeroy House, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant, and in 1812 High-Sheriff, for the above county, who married the only daughter of Admiral Graves.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ramillies 74, Capts. Fras. Pickmore and Robt. Yarker. Continuing in that ship for nearlyfthree years, he was in consequence present, as Midshipman, at the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule; and at the reduction, in Dec. 1807, of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix. He fell on one occasion from the ship’s side, and was so seriously injured that for many years he felt the effects. Towards the close of 1808 we find him proceeding in the Cornelia frigate, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, to the Cape station, where, in Dec. 1810, he co-operated in the reduction of the Isle of France. Returning home in the early part of 1811, in consequence of ill health, in the Actaeon 16, commanded by Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, who was charged with the despatches announcing the conquest, Mr. Lowry did not again go afloat until July, 1813; between which period and Dec. 1815, he served on the Home and Mediterranean stations, part of the time as Admiralty Midshipman, in the Blenheim, Namur, and Bombay 74’s, and Malta 80, Capts. Sam. Warren, Chas. John Austen, Geo. M‘Kinley, Henry Bazely, and Wm. Chas. Fahie. From the date last mentioned until July, 1819, he remained a second time on shore. It was his fortune to be then appointed Admiralty Midshipman of the Royal George yacht, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget; during the presence of the Prince Regent on board which vessel, he appears to have had the care of the royal barge, and to have had the honour of steering the Duke of York. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission dated 11 Oct. 1819; and has since been on half-pay.
One of his sons, Wm. J. Lowry, is a Midshipman in the R.N.; and another is Lieutenant in the 47th Regt. of Foot.
LOWTHER. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Marcus Lowther entered the Navy in 1830; passed his examination 8 June, 1838; and after serving as Mate of the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, on the Mediterranean station, was employed in that capacity, from 1842 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 9 Aug. 1844, on board the Agincourt 72, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. He was then re-appointed to the same ship and continued attached to her until her return to England in 1847. On 19 Aug. 1845 he appears to have had charge of a gun-boat, and to have served with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered a desperate opposition, and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.[1] We also, in July, 1846, on the occasion of an expedition conducted by the Admiral against the Sultan of Borneo, find him commanding the third company of small-arm men, and assisting at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries up the river Brune.[2]
LOWTHIAN. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 20; h-p., 34.)
Robert Lowthian entered the Navy, 30 June, 1793, as .A.B., on board the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Hugh Cloberry Christian, bearing the flag in the Channel of Lord Hood. Removing, in March, 1794, to the Royal George 100, flag-ship of the late Lord Bridport, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the ensuing action of 1 June, and of also participating in the one fought off the Ile de Groix 23 June, 1795. In Jan. 1797 he sailed for the West Indies as Master’s Mate of the York 74, Capt. John Ferrier. While in that ship, of which he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for 12 months as such, 2 Nov. 1799, we find him engaged in numerous cutting-out affairs at the islands of St. Domingo and Cuba. On his return to the Downs he was the Senior Lieutenant, it appears, employed from her in the boats in the attack made by Lord Nelson on the Boulogne flotilla in Aug. 1801. The York being put out of commission in April, 1802, he was next, 3 June, 1803, appointed to the Colossus 74, Capts. Geo. Martin and Jas. Nicoll Morris, with whom he served for two years and 10 months in the Channel. He afterwards became Senior Lieutenant – 22 April and 2 Sept. 1805, of the Trusty 50, and Inconstant 36, commanded in the Downs and off Guernsey by Capts. Geo. Argles and Edw. Stirling Dickson – 25 June, 1808, and 16 Aug. 1810, of the Brazen 18, and Helder 32, Capts. Lewis Shepheard and John Serrell, both on the Jamaica station – and, 15 Feb. 1811 and 29 Jan. 1813, of the Bellerophon and Scarborough 74’s, bearing each the flag off Flushing of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier. He went on half-pay in Jan. 1814, having been advanced to his present rank on 4 of the previous month, and has not been since able to procure employment.
LUARD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Garnham Luard entered the Navy 8 Feb. 1833; passed his examination in 1840; and was about the same period appointed Mate of the Samarang 26, Capt. Jas. Scott. Joining soon afterwards in the operations on the coast of China, he there, by his zealous and promising conduct, drew forth the repeated commendations of his Captain – particularly by his gallantry at the storming of the fort of Tycocktow 7 Jan. 1841, and by his subsequent behaviour during the celebrated forced passage, effected, between 3 a. m. on 13, and 4 p. M. on 15 March, by the Nemesis and the Samarang’s boats up the inner channel from Macao to Whampoa, a navigation never before traversed by European boat or vessel, in the course of which were destroyed five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine man-of-war junks, in which collectively were 115 guns and 8 ginjalls.[3] As a reward for his services he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 May, 1841. His appointments have since been – 13 Sept. 1841, to the Belleisle 72, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, lying at Plymouth – 16 Nov. 1841, to the Isis 44, Capt. Sir John Marshall, with whom he was for three years employed at the Cape of Good Hope – 14 March, 1845, to the Melampus 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, fitting at Devonport – and 14 April following, as First, to the Grecian 16, Capt. Louis Symonds Tindal, in which vessel he is now serving on the S.E. coast of America.
LUCE. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 20.)
William Luce entered the Navy, in Aug. 1807, as A.B., on board the Pluto sloop, Capt. Rich. Gaire Janvrin, stationed in the Channel; and in Aug. 1808 joined the Christian VII. 80, Capt. Joseph Sydney Yorke. In that ship, which shortly afterwards hoisted the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, and (with the same Admiral) in the Caledonia 120, he continued to serve as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the North Sea and Mediterranean stations, until nominated, after having shared in a skirmish with the French Toulon fleet, Acting-Lieutenant, in Jan. 1814, of the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, part of the force employed in a second encounter with the enemy. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 16 March, 1814, and was subsequently appointed – 16 Dec. 1814, to the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, on the Irish station – for a few months in 1815 to the Favorite 20 and Curaçoa 36, Capts. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude and John Tower, both employed on Home service – 25 June, 1828, and 19 Feb. 1830, as a Supernumerary, to the Ramillies
