William Parker Lowndes (abt. 1892 - 1929)

Born about 1892 in Bisley, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Died Oct 1929 at about age 37 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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Biography

William was born about 1892. He was the son of William Lowndes and Margaret Moody. He studied at Cambridge, was injured in the First World War, became a Roman Catholic priest and died in 1929 after falling off a horse.

Sources

• 1911 Census: Little Comberton Rectory, Pershore, Worcestershire. GBC_1911_RG14_17715_0159. findmypast

William Dobson Lowndes head, aged 53, Clerk in Holy Orders & Private Means, employed by the Established Church, born at Handsworth, Staffordshire

Margaret Lowndes wife, aged 48, married for 23 years, 4 children all living, born in British Columbia {Resident}

Margaret Alice Lowndes daughter, aged 20, single, born at Malvern, Worcestershire

William Parker Lowndes son, aged 19, single, Student - Undergraduate at Cambridge, born at Bisley, Gloucestershire

Mary de Clervaulx Lowndes daughter, aged 9, born at Little Comberton, Worcestershire

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• Western Daily Press, 11 October 1929 page 9. findmypast

Priest Killed.

Falling from a horse which he was riding in Henley Road, Ipswich, yesterday, Father William Parker Lowndes, a priest at St. Pancras Roman Catholic Church, Ipswich, received injuries from which he died.

• Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer, 7 October 1939 page 4. findmypast

(The part of the article concerned with William Parker Lowndes is given here. The whole text can be found in his father's profile.)

Notable Record

THE resignation of the Rector of Little Comberton, the Rev. William Dobson Lowndes,

In 1884 he married Margaret, daughter of Major-General and Mrs. Moody, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, and of their four children, the youngest son, the Rev. William Parker Lowndes, a priest in the R.C. Church at Ipswich, died about 12 years ago from the effects of wounds received in the Great War, while serving with the Hon. Artillery Company.