Robert Lowther (collector)

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Robert Lowther (c.1790 - 10 January 1879), was the first Collector of the district of Bulandshahr, North-Western Provinces, India, from 16 February 1824 to 15 March 1832. He is credited with raising the state of that town from a collection of mud huts to a flourishing and more populous town. His successors included George Dundas Turnbull, Charles Currie, and H. B. Webster. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Lowther entered Haileybury in 1808. [5] He married Laura Martinadle in 1847. [6] [7]

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  1. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995. 1879. p. 602 – via ancestry.cc.uk.
  2. ↑ Growse, F. S. (1884). Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural. Benares: Medical Hall Press. p. 10.
  3. ↑ Singh, Kuar Lachman (1874). "1. Memoir of Bulandshahr". Historical and Statistical Memoir of Zila Bulandshahar. Allahabad: North-Western Provinces Government Press. pp. 45–52. ISBN   978-3-382-50031-3.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  4. ↑ Nevill, H. R. (1922). Bulandshahr A Gazetteer Vol-v (1922). Lucknow: Government Branch Press. p. 129.
  5. ↑ Danvers, Frederick Charles; Monier-Williams, Sir Monier; Bayley, Sir Steuart Colvin; Wigram, Percy; Sapte, Brand (1894). Memorials of Old Haileybury College. A. Constable. p. 335.
  6. ↑ "Marriages" . Saint James's Chronicle. 24 August 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 30 November 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ Atkinson, Edwin Thomas (1876). Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: 3.:Meerut division part 2. North-Western Provinces Government. pp. 127–128.
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