Robert Lowther (collector)
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Robert Lowther (c.1790 - 10 January 1879), was the first Collector of the district of Bulandshahr, North-Western Provinces, India, from 16 February 1824 to 15 March 1832. He is credited with raising the state of that town from a collection of mud huts to a flourishing town. His successors included George Dundas Turnbull, Charles Currie, and H. D. Webster.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Danvers, Frederick Charles; Monier-Williams, Sir Monier; Bayley, Sir Steuart Colvin; Wigram, Percy; Sapte, Brand (1894). Memorials of Old Haileybury College. A. Constable. p. 335.
- ^ "Marriages". Saint James's Chronicle. 24 August 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 30 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Atkinson, Edwin Thomas (1876). Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: 3.:Meerut division part 2. North-Western Provinces Government. pp. 127–128.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995. 1879. p. 602 – via ancestry.cc.uk.
- ^ Growse, F. S. (1884). Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural. Benares: Medical Hall Press. p. 10.
- ^ Singh, Kuar Lachman (1874). Historical and Statistical Memoir of Zila Bulandshahar. Allahabad: North-Western Provinces Government Press. pp. 45–52. ISBN 978-3-382-50031-3.
- ^ Nevill, H. R. (1922). Bulandshahr A Gazetteer Vol-v (1922). Lucknow: Government Branch Press. p. 129.
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