Thomas Hill Peregrine Furye Lowe (21 December 1781 – 17 January 1861) was an English cleric.
[ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Lowe, Thomas (Hill Peregrine Furye)] He was
Dean of Exeter
The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedr ...
from 1839 to his death.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe and Lucy Hill, daughter of
Thomas Hill.
He matriculated at
Trinity College, Oxford
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in 1799, graduating B.A. in 1803, and M.A. in 1805. In 1804 he entered
Lincoln's Inn.
Lowe was a curate at
Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, in 1810. In 1812 he had a post as domestic chaplain with
Henry Hall Gage, 4th Viscount Gage, and in 1814 another curacy, at
Diddlebury
Diddlebury is a small village and large civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is situated in the Corvedale on the B4368 road about north east of Craven Arms. The population of the Civil Ward in 2011 was 670.
Public buildings
St Peter's parish ...
in Shropshire. In 1820 he became vicar of
Grimley, Worcestershire. He was rector of Holy Trinity, Exeter from 1837 to 1840, and Dean of Exeter from 1839 for the rest of his life.
He published in 1825 ''An essay on the absolving power of the Church''.
Family
Lowe married in 1808 Ellen Lucy Pardoe (died 1843), eldest daughter of George Pardoe of Nash Court, Shropshire. Their children were:
*Lucy (died 1865 at age 56), married in 1828 Rev. Thomas James Rocke, as his first wife
*Helen (died 1881 at age 72), unmarried
*Thomas Lowe (born 1811, died in Australia)
*George Lowe (1813–1885), cleric, married 1842 Louisa, youngest daughter of Thomas Crookenden of Rushford Hall, Suffolk
*Arthur Lowe (1814–1882), naval officer, married: 1848 Katharina Ommaney, youngest daughter of
John Acworth Ommanney R.N.; 1858 Florence Strode, younger daughter of George Strode of Newnham Park, Devon; 1864 Elizabeth Henrietta, eldest daughter of
Henry Ducie Chads
Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, (24 February 1788 – 7 April 1868) was an officer in the Royal Navy who saw action from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War.
Family background
Chads was born in Marylebone, London, the eldest son of Captai ...
, R.N.
*Herbert Lowe, baptised 1816
*Noel Lowe (1817–1857), cleric, married 1847 Louisa Julia, younger daughter of
John Moore-Stevens of Winscott, Devon
*Anna, baptised 1819, died unmarried 1880
*Emma, baptised 1821, died unmarried 1892
*Harriet, baptised 1822, died unmarried 1898.
References
1781 births
1861 deaths
Deans of Exeter
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