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{{Short description|British Indian railways engineer, an ornithologist, and a pioneer of bird photography in India}}

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'''Ernest Herbert Newton Lowther''' (19 May 1890<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283250/page/n471/mode/1up |title=The Indian Office And Burma Office List 1940 |publisher=HMSO |year=1940 |edition=54 |place=London |page=461}}</ref> - 28 April 1952) was a British Indian railways engineer, an ornithologist, and a pioneer of bird photography in India. During his travels across India, he studied the life of birds and began to document their breeding behavior using nest photography. He co-wrote on the breeding birds of Kashmir and wrote on his own experiences as well as the history of bird photography in India.

== Life and work ==
Lowther was born in [[Lahore]] to Annie née Moore and Arthur John Newton who worked in the railways. He was educated at Simla before going to [[Bedford School|Bedford]] and [[Tonbridge School|Tonbridge]]. He became interested in egg-collecting but shifted to bird photography after listening to a lecture by [[Richard Kearton]] at school in Tonbridge. He returned to India in 1911 and joined the East India Railways. During his postings he examined the birds and began to photograph them at the nest mainly in the Bihar and United Provinces. He built high machans and [[Bird hide|hides]] for the purpose of photography and observation. He also made several trips to Kashmir. While in the Etawah district, he looked at the birds in relation to historic records made by [[Allan Octavian Hume]]. He retired as a Divisional Superintendent of the Railways at Lucknow in 1945 and returned to England. He published extensively in the Journal of the [[Bombay Natural History Society]] where he was a member. Among his observations at nest were those on [[Helpers at the nest|helpers]] in the nest of babblers.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Skutch, A.F.| year=1961| title=Helpers among birds|pages=198-226| journal=The Condor| volume=63| issue=3| url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v063n03/p0198-p0226.pdf}}</ref> Lowther married  Shuna Edith Mary Morgan on 23 December 1932 at Bombay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FamilySearch |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGV5-XSW}}</ref> He died at his home in Sussex.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituaries: E. H. N. Lowther| author=Bates, R.S.P.| year=1952| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society| volume=50| pages=913-913|url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48057600}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kinnear |first=N.B. |date=1953 |title=Obituaries |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1953.tb00712.x |journal=Ibis |language=en |volume=95 |issue=3 |pages=543–544 |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1953.tb00712.x}}</ref>

=== Writings ===
Lowther published on the birds of Kashmir in collaboration with Colonel [[Richard Sydney Patrick Bates|R.S.P. Bates]]. He also wrote a book titled ''A Bird photographer in India'' (1949).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bourlière |first=François |date=1950 |title=Lowther (E.-H.-N.) . — A bird photographer in India. Oxford University Press., 1949 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/revec_0040-3865_1950_num_4_2_3564_t1_0108_0000_4 |journal=Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie) |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=108–109}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pitt |first=Frances |date=1950-09-16 |title=[Book Reviews] |url=http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/166454c0 |journal=Nature |volume=166 |issue=4220 |pages=454–454 |doi=10.1038/166454c0 |issn=0028-0836}}</ref>

* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1936|title= Notes on some Indian birds. I. The Indian Crested Swift.|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 39|issue=1|pages= 116-124|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47601810}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1937|title= Notes on some Indian birds. II. Nightjars|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 39|issue=3|pages= 543-551|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47591016}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1938|title= Notes on some Indian birds. III. Birds in my garden |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=40|issue=3|pages=409-424|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47591534}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1940|title= Notes on some Indian birds. IV. The Manbhum District.|journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 41|issue=3|pages= 526-547|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47818970 }}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1940|title= Notes on some Indian birds. Part V. The sportsman's gallery. |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=41|issue=4|pages=765-777|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47819289}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1941|title= Notes on some Indian birds. Part VI. - An Indian river-bed.|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 42|issue=4|pages= 782-795|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47858301}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N.|year=1942|title= Notes on some Indian birds. VII - Hornbills. |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=43|issue=3|pages=389-401|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48228145}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1944|title= Notes on some Indian birds. VIII - By tank and jhil.|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 44|issue=3|pages=355-373|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48294984}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1944|title= Notes on some Indian birds IX - Eagles, Owls and Vultures. |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=45|issue=1|pages=5-16|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48126672}}
* {{cite journal|author-mask=*|author=Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1946|title= The Lammergeier (''Gypaetus barbatus'') Linnaeus. |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=46|issue=3|pages=501-508|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48200116}}
* {{cite journal|author1=Bates, R.S.P.|author2= Lowther, E.H.N. |year=1952|title= The history of bird-photography in India. |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=50|issue=4|pages=779-784|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48057424}}

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