Richard Thomas Lowe

Richard Thomas Lowe (1802-1874) was a British botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge and in the same year took holy orders. Became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands in 1832 where he was a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on Madeiran flora. In 1874 he died when the ship he was on wrecked off of Sicily.