Low, John

Education

Student United College 1802-1803 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1803-1804 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Hist. Civ. (Secondar).

Birth/childhood

Born 13.12.1788 son of Captain Robert Low of Clatto and Susanna Eliza Malcolm.

Career

General in Indian Army and political administrator. [Soldier]

G.C.S.I. [Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India] K.C.B. [Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath]

Succeeded to Clatto and built Clatto House c. 1856. [Landowner]

Death

Died in London 10.1.1880.

Sources

  • DNB
  • C.E. Buckland, Dictionary of Indian biography (London, 1906)
  • F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
  • U. Low, Fifty years… 1936
  • Monumental inscription, Kemback b.g.
  • Low, John in Wikisource DNB.