Lowndes
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Lowndes is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Christopher Lowndes
    Christopher Lowndes
    Christopher Lowndes was a leading merchant in colonial Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Maryland. He was named Commissioner of the town of Bladensburg in 1745, and in 1753 he was appointed one of the justices of Prince George's County, holding both offices until his death in...

     (1713-1785), early settler and merchant at Bladensburg, Maryland
  • Craig Lowndes
    Craig Lowndes
    Craig Lowndes is a multi-championship winning Australian racing driver. He is a three-time V8 Supercar champion and five-time winner of Australia's most famous motor race, the Bathurst 1000...

    , racing driver
  • Jessica Lowndes
    Jessica Lowndes
    Jessica Lowndes is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Adrianna Tate-Duncan on TV series 90210.-Personal life:Jessica Suzanne Lowndes was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...

  • Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.
    Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.
    Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. , a member of the United States Republican Party, was the 43rd Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1896 to 1900 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1873 to 1875...

     (1845-1905), U.S. politician and Governor of Maryland
  • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
    Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
    Marie Adelaïde Lowndes, née Belloc , was a prolific English novelist.Active from 1904 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest...

  • Rawlins Lowndes
    Rawlins Lowndes
    Rawlins Lowndes was an American lawyer and politician from South Carolina. His sons, Thomas and William Lowndes, both served in the U.S. Congress....

  • Robert A. W. Lowndes
    Robert A. W. Lowndes
    Robert Augustine Ward "Doc" Lowndes was an American science fiction author, editor and fan. He was known best as the editor of Future Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly, among many other crime-fiction, western, sports-fiction, and other pulp and digest-sized magazines...

     (1916-1998), science fiction writer and editor

Stephen William Hope Lowndes (1946- ) Travellor, museum director and painter.
  • Thomas Lowndes (astronomer)
    Thomas Lowndes (astronomer)
    Thomas Lowndes was the founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University, England.Both his father and mother were Cheshire landowners. In 1725 he was appointed provost marshal of South Carolina, a post he preferred to hold by deputy...

  • Thomas Lowndes (congressman)
    Thomas Lowndes (congressman)
    Thomas Lowndes was an American lawyer and statesman from Charleston, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. Congress from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1805.-External links:*...

  • William Lowndes, various including
    • William Lowndes (British politician) (1652–1724) British politician and Secretary to the Treasury
    • William Lowndes (congressman) (1782–1822) U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
    • William Selby Lowndes
      William Selby Lowndes
      William Selby Lowndes was a United Kingdom Member of Parliament.The Lowndes family were conservative Anglican landowners in the English county of Buckinghamshire. This gentry family was prominent in the county during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...

    • William Thomas Lowndes
      William Thomas Lowndes
      William Thomas Lowndes , English bibliographer, was born about 1798, the son of a London bookseller.His principal work, The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature—the first systematic work of the kind—was published in four volumes in 1834...

      , English
      England
      England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

       bibliographer
      Bibliographer
      "A bibliographer is a person who describes and lists books and other publications, with particular attention to such characteristics as authorship, publication date, edition, typography, etc. The result of this endeavor is a bibliography...

      , whose principal work, The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature took 14 years to compile

Places

  • Lowndes County, Alabama
    Lowndes County, Alabama
    Lowndes County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is named in honor of William Lowndes, a member of the United States Congress from South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,299...

  • Lowndes County, Georgia
    Lowndes County, Georgia
    Lowndes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia along the Florida border. It was created December 23, 1825. The 2010 Census showed a population of 109,233...

  • Lowndes County, Mississippi
    Lowndes County, Mississippi
    As of the census of 2000, there were 61,586 people, 22,849 households, and 16,405 families residing in the county. The population density was 123 people per square mile . There were 25,104 housing units at an average density of 50 per square mile...

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