George Rivers Lowndes

Sir George Rivers Lowndes, KCSI, KC (1862–1943), was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and judge.

Lowndes was the son of Reverend Richard Lowndes Vicar of Sturminster & his wife Ann Harriet née Kaye. He married Hilda Julia Forbes on the 3rd of Sept. 1896 at Sturminster, Dorset. Their eldest son Richard Forbes Lowndes was killed aged 19 on the 14th Nov 1916 at the Somme, France.[1]

He practised before the High Court of Bombay.[2] Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1929, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire.[3] He retired from the Judicial Committee in 1934, being replaced by Sir Lancelot Sanderson, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta.

References

  1. ↑ London Gazette, 5 January 1934, p. 139.
  2. ↑ Bombay High Court.
  3. ↑ London Gazette, 5 March 1929, p. 1567.



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