Samuel Lowder | |
Birth Date: | 1813[1] |
Birth Place: | Swindon, Wiltshire, England[2] |
Death Date: | 4 June 1891 (aged 79)[3] |
Death Place: | Forest Hill, London, England |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | Royal Marines |
Rank: | General |
Commands: | Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines |
Battles: | Crimean War Second French intervention in Mexico |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
General Samuel Netterville Lowder, (1813 – 4 June 1891) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Lowder was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He commanded a unit of marines which secured the island of Kotka on the coast of Finland during the Crimean War[4] and then commanded a battalion of marines providing support to French forces during the French intervention in Mexico in 1863.[5] He became colonel second commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in November 1864, colonel commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in September 1866[6] and Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in July 1867 before retiring in July 1872.