Samuel Lowder

{{Short description|Royal Marines officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = General |name = Samuel Lowder |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= 1813<ref>''Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1916''</ref> |birth_place= Swindon, Wiltshire, England<ref name="1881census">''1881 England Census''</ref> |death_date= 4 June 1891 (aged 79)<ref name="probate">''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995''</ref> |death_place =Forest Hill, London, England |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Marines |service_years= |rank= General |unit= |commands= Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines |battles= Crimean War<br />Second French intervention in Mexico |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath |relations= |other_work= }} General '''Samuel Netterville Lowder''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|CB}} (1813 – 4 June 1891) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines. ==Military career== 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<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.pdavis.nl/Russia4.htm|title=Russia|publisher=William Loney|accessdate=24 May 2016}}</ref> and then commanded a battalion of marines providing support to French forces during the French intervention in Mexico in 1863.<ref>Caledonian Mercury, 8 June 1863</ref> He became colonel second commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in November 1864,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22910|page=5311|date=11 November 1864}}</ref> colonel commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in September 1866<ref>The Edinburgh Courant, 10 September 1866</ref> and Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in July 1867<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23273|page=3854|date=9 July 1872}}</ref> before retiring in July 1872.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23875|page=3146|date=12 July 1872}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist|30em}} {{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=George Langley}} {{s-ttl|title=Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines|years=1867–1872}} {{s-aft|after=Sir George Schomberg}} {{s-end}}

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