Monument to Adelaide Louisa Flowerdew Lowson, Bray Parish Cemetery, Holyport Berkshire.
"In loving memory of Adelaide Louisa Flowerdew Lowson born 20th June 1868 died 21st May 1948 daughter of Colonel and Mrs C.H.S. Scott and wife of James Gray Flowerdew Lowson J.P. Ph.D Member: King's Bodyguard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) of Quarwood House Stow-on-the-Wold. Gloucestershire and Mother of Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, Bart.. M. A.. L. C. C Lord Mayor of London 1950-1951."
Adelaide Louisa Flowerdew Lowson was born Adelaide Louisa Scott in Simla, Bengal, India on 20th June 1868 to Colonel Courtenay Harvey Saltron Scott and his wife Margaret Julia Colquhoun
On the 1881 Census Adelaide can be found living at 17 Eccleston Square in the Westminster area of London with her parents and elder sister Eleanor Margaret.
On 19th July 1890 Adelaide married James Gray Flowerdew Lowson, son of William Lowson and Helen Flowerdew. James Gray Flowerdew Lowson was a Justice of the Peace, Captain of 9th Battalion Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Member of the Royal County Archers and 1st District Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Stratford-on-Avon and Stow-on the-Wold as well as being the Life Governor of U College Dundee. On the 1891 Scottish Census the couple can be found living at Hedderwick Hill Mansion House, Dunbar.
Together Adelaide and James had three children Eleanor Margaret Flowerdew Lowson born 1892, Courtenay Patrick Flowerdew Lowson born 1897 and Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson born 1906.
On the 1901 Scottish Census Adelaide can be found living at 18 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh, with her husband and two elder children, Eleanor and Courtenay.
1911 and the family has moved to Snitterfield House in Stratford-on-Avon.
Eleanor married Major General William Revell Smith and served as an Officer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in World War I
Courtenay Patrick served the during the First World War as an Observer with the Rifle Brigade attached to the Royal Flying Corps. In December of 1915 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and then Lieutenant in the July of 1917. In March 1916 he became a flying instructor but was sadly killed in a flying accident on 3rd November 1917 when his plane collided mid-air with the plane of Lieutenant Owen Ellis Augustus Allen in Scampton Lincoln. The Scotsman reported on 8th November 1917:
"Sec. Lt Courtenay Patrick Flowerdew Lowson, who was killed on November 3rd in an aeroplane accident, was the elder son of Mr J. G. Flowerdew Lowson, of 18 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh, and was 20 years of age. He was educated at Boxgrove School and Winchester, and qualified for Christ Church College, Oxford but owing to the war, did not take up residence. He-passed through Sandhurst in December 1915, he was gazetted into the Rifle Brigade, and was immediately thereafter attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He went to France as Observer in March 1916, and did much photographic work. He was present at the battle of the Somme. After taking out his pilot's certificate, he was made instructor in flying, and at the time of his death had charge a flight."
The 1939 England and Wales Register finds Adelaide, James, and their youngest son Denys living at Quarwood House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. James was to pass away on 16th September 1942. The Cheltenham Chronicle reported on 26th September 1942:
"MR. JAMES G. FLOWERDEW LOWSON DEAD
The death has taken place at his home, Quarwood, Stow-on-the-Wold. of Mr. James Gray Flowerdew Lowson, Ph.D., at the age of 82, after a short illness. Mr. Lowson was a distinguished chemist and was the last surviving son of Mr. William Lowson, of Balthayock, Perthshire, a former Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire. Mr. Lowson was educated at j Edinburgh and Heidelberg Universities, and then worked for a short time at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became interested in the study of the practical application of science to industry and spent three years in Scotland an ordinary workman in this connection.
CHEMICAL RESEARCH WORK
He then proceeded with his chemical researches, largely in connection with paper-making materials. During the last war he served as member of several Government Committees connected with industrial masters. In his younger days he was a member of Midlothian County Council. Mr. Lowson was a Member of the King's Bodyguard (Royal Company of Archers) for Scotland, and for some years served as a captain in the 9th (Highland Battalion) Royal Scots. He was a life governor of University College, Dundee, also a governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Adelaide Flowerdew Lowson, and by one son, Mr. Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, a barrister and a former Sheriff of the City of London. He was buried in the family grave at Kinfauns, Scotland."
Adelaide was to pass away on 21st May 1948 in Bournemouth, Hampshire. The Gloucestershire Echo reported on 24th May 1948:
"DEATH OF MRS. FLOWERDEW LOWSON
"DEATH OF MRS. FLOWERDEW LOWSON
The death has taken place in her 80th year at Bournemouth of Mrs. Adelaide Louisa Flowerdew Lowson, formerly of Stow-on-the-Wold, who will be remembered for the prominent and active part she took in the Conservative cause in Gloucestershire. Daughter of the late Col. C. H. S. Scott, Bengal Staff Corps, and of Mrs. Scott, of Pennant Hall, Montgomeryshire, she married the distinguished chemist, Dr. James Gray Flowerdew Lowson, of Quarwood. Stow-on-the-Wold, and Balthayock, Perthshire, who died at Stow-on-the-Wold in September 1942, at the age of 82. Over great number of years Mrs. Flowerdew Lowson closely identified herself with the Cirencester and Tewkesbury Conservative and Unionist Association, which she was for years the vice-chairman. She was well known in all parts of the constituency and was a forceful speaker who was always ready to take her full part in events.
FOR "DEVOTED SERVICE"
On the death of her husband, she went to live at Bournemouth, and the appreciation of the members of the Association was expressed in the presentation of a book inscribed with a tribute to her "able and devoted service and comradeship as vice-chairman of the Association from April 29, 1922, to May 29, 1943." Mrs. Flowerdew Lowson had a son and daughter, Mr. Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew, a barrister and former Sheriff of the City of London, and Mrs. Eleanor M. Revell Smith, of Slapton Manor, near Towcester, Northamptonshire"
Sir Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson became Lord Mayor of London on 30th September 1950 on 27th June 1951 the Lowson Baronetcy was created for Denys Lowson. Presently the title is held by his son Sir Ian Patrick Lowson, 2nd Baronet.
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