Author: Lowthion, Thomas
Biography:
LOWTHION, Thomas (1803-28: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 15 May 1803 and baptised on 12 June at Cockermouth Independent, Cumbria, the eldest of eight children of Joseph Lowthion (1779-1846), grocer and tea dealer and sometime innkeeper, and his wife Elizabeth (1780-1854) (maiden name unknown). His grandfather Rev. Thomas Lowthion (1738-81) had been Congregational minister at Cockermouth from 1765 and had been accused of Arianism. He was educated by Rev. William Pattinson (1789-1840), Curate at Caldbeck, at Parsonby School, about ten miles from Cockermouth. As the eldest son, he probably initially followed his father into trade but he later became a schoolmaster at Hayton near Allonby, near his mother’s family at Aspatria. He published poems in the Carlisle Patriot and collected them by subscription in Fiorine (1827). He then went to Demerara (British Guyana), where he died in 1828--but it is not known why he went there. His immediate family was not poor but did not have major trading interests. A brother became a mariner; three sisters became dressmakers; his youngest sister opened a coffee house. He may have gone out to Demerara to visit or work for Thomas Lowthian, attorney and plantation owner of Broom Hall, Demerara, whose family was from Lancaster, and who was probably a relative. (ancestry.co.uk 13 Aug. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 13 Aug. 2022; LBS; Cumberland Pacquet 30 Sept. 1828; Carlisle Patriot 4 Oct., 29 Nov. 1828, 8 May 1846, 1 July 1854; Johnson, item 557) AA
Other Names:
- T. Lowthion