Richard Thomas Lowe

Richard Thomas Lowe (1802-1874) was an English botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825, he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832, he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. He died in 1874 when the ship he was on was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly.