Born in Dublin, and traced his descent from the McCarthys, Kings of Kenmare. From a private day school he entered Trinity College in 1854 as a rough inconspicuous young Irishman. In 1855 he became Classical Master at the Royal School of Dungannon, where he had the future Lord Justice Collins among h

The son of Benjamin Thompson Lowne, who practised at 17 Bartlett's Buildings, BC. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisted his father for some years after qualifying, and then entered the Navy as Assistant Surgeon, but resigned before 1867. In January, 1864, he received a grant from th