Percy Roycroft Lowe (January 2, 1870–August 18, 1948) was an English surgeon and ornithologist. Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental Ornithology (from Greek ὄρνις ὄρνιθος ornis, ornithos, "bird" and λόγος logos, "knowledge" is the branch of
Lowe was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire and studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge. Stamford is located 100 miles north of London just off the A1 which was the old Great North Road leading to York and Edinburgh. Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Jesus College in the University of Cambridge was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. He served as a civil surgeon in the Second Boer War, and it was whilst in South Africa that he became interested in ornithology. See also First Boer War,, South African Wars (1879-1915 The Second Boer War ( Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa On his return he became private physician to Sir Frederic Johnstone, and during World War One was medical officer on an ambulance ship in the Mediterranean.
Lowe worked with Dorothea Bate on fossil ostriches in China. Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS ( 8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951) also known as Dorothy Bate, was a British The Ostrich ( Struthio camelus) is a large Flightless bird native to Africa (and formerly the Middle East) China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National [1]
In November 1919 he succeeded William Robert Ogilvie-Grant as Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum, retiring on his sixty-fifth birthday in 1935. William Robert Ogilvie-Grant ( March 25, 1863 - July 26, 1924) was a Scottish Ornithologist. The Natural History Museum is one of three large Museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum He was succeeded by Norman Boyd Kinnear. Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear ( August 11, 1882 - August 11, 1957) was a Scottish Zoologist.
He was editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1920 to 1925 and president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1938 to 1943. The Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club ( is an ornithological journal published by the British Ornithologists' Club (BOC BOU may also stand for Bank of Uganda, the central bank of Uganda The British Ornithologists' Union ( BOU) aims to encourage In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
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- ^ Bate, Dorothea Minola Alice (1878-1951), palaeontologist by Karolyn Shindler in Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 23 November 2007)