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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Robert Lowther''' (c.1790 - 10 January 1879), was the first [[District magistrate|Collector]] of the [[Bulandshahr district|district of Bulandshahr]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British India|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 and more populous town. His successors included [[George Dundas Turnbull]], [[Charles Currie (collector)|Charles Currie]], and [[Henry Binny Webster|H. B. Webster]].<ref>{{cite book |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1904/records/63701|via=ancestry.cc.uk|date=1879 |page=602}}</ref><ref name=Sketches1884>{{cite book |last1=Growse |first1=F. S. |title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural |date=1884 |publisher=Medical Hall Press |location=Benares |url=https://archive.org/details/bulandshahrorsk00growgoog/page/n8/mode/2up |language=English|page=10}}</ref><ref name=Singh1874>{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Kuar Lachman|title=Historical and Statistical Memoir of Zila Bulandshahar |date=1874 |publisher=North-Western Provinces Government Press|isbn=978-3-382-50031-3|location=Allahabad |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.11477/page/45/mode/2up?q=lowther|language=en|chapter=1. Memoir of Bulandshahr |pages=45-52}}</ref><ref name=Nevill1922>{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H. R. |title=Bulandshahr A Gazetteer Vol-v (1922) |date=1922 |publisher=Government Branch Press |location=Lucknow |page=129 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1361/page/n129/mode/2up?q=lowther}}</ref><br />
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Lowther entered [[East India Company College|Haileybury]] in 1808.<ref name=Danvers>{{Cite book |last=Danvers |first=Frederick Charles |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsoldhai00collgoog/page/334/mode/2up?q=Lowther |title=Memorials of Old Haileybury College |last2=Monier-Williams |first2=Sir Monier |last3=Bayley |first3=Sir Steuart Colvin |last4=Wigram |first4=Percy |last5=Sapte |first5=Brand |date=1894 |publisher=A. Constable |language=en|page=335}}</ref> He married Laura Martinadle in 1847.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriages |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002193/18470824/052/0004 |access-date=30 November 2024 |work=Saint James's Chronicle |date=24 August 1847|page=4}}</ref><ref name=Atkinson1876>{{Cite book |last=Atkinson |first=Edwin Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9jaXsOc-tEC&pg=PA127 |title=Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: 3.:Meerut division part 2 |date=1876 |publisher=North-Western Provinces Government |pages=127-128 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of administrators of Bulandshahr]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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