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{{Short description|British civil servant of the Indian Civil Service (ICS)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = William Lowe
| image = William Henry Lowe memorial plaque.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Memorial plaque inside All Saints Church (Bulandshahr)
| birth_name = William Henry Lowe
| birth_date = {{birth date|1831|08|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1862|07|30|1831|08|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Bulandshahr]], India
| other_names =
| occupation = [[District magistrate|District magistrate and collector]] for [[Indian Civil Service]]
| years_active =
| known_for = *Led funding of the [[All Saints Church, Bulandshahr|All Saints Church]], Bulandshahr
| notable_works =
}}
'''William Henry Lowe''' (30 August 1831 – 30 July 1862), was a British [[District magistrate|district magistrate and collector]] of the [[Bulandshahr district|district of Bulandshahr]], during [[British Raj|British rule of India]]. He led the funding of the construction of the [[All Saints Church, Bulandshahr|All Saints Church]] in [[Bulandshahr]]. The Lowe memorial building by the district magistrate's court in Bulandshahr was named for him. He died at age 30 of natural causes.

==Early life and family==
William Lowe was born on 30 August 1831 in Calcutta, to John Lowe.<ref name=Aroles>{{cite book |last1=Aroles |first1=Serge |title=L'énigme des enfants-loups: une certitude biologique mais un déni des archives, 1304-1954 |date=2008 |publisher=Editions Publibook |isbn=978-2-7483-8502-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-fjWToCMo0C&pg=PA82 |language=fr}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} He married a daughter of [[William Muir|Sir William Muir]].<ref name=Sketches1884/> They had a son, William Henry Muir Lowe.<ref>Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935</ref> Elizabeth Huntley was his only daughter.<ref>{{cite news |title=Domestic occurrences |publisher=Bangalore Spectator |date=16 August 1886 |page=3}}</ref>

==Career==
Lowe succeeded [[George Hamilton Freeling]] as [[District magistrate|district magistrate and collector]] for the [[Bulandshahr district|district of Bulandshahr]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Bulandshahr A Gazetteer Vol-v (1922) |date=1922 |page=118 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1361/mode/2up?q=lowe}}</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 |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.11477/page/45/mode/2up?q=lowe|language=en|pages=45–52}}</ref> In that role he led the funding of the construction of [[All Saints Church, Bulandshahr|All Saints Church]] on the far west side of the town [[Bulandshahr]].<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/n78/mode/2up?q=lowe|language=English|page=78}}</ref> It was completed in 1864 and later described by the subsequent collector [[Frederic Salmon Growse|F. S. Growse]] as a "pretty little building" with the caretakers accommodation as a "practical joke".<ref name=Sketches1884/>

===Wolf child===
The [[feral child]] [[Dina Sanichar]], may have been the inspiration for the character [[Mowgli]] in ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]].<ref name=Sorabji1904>{{cite book |last=Sorabji |first=Caroline |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g0A2AQAAMAAJ&dq=lowe&pg=PA38 |title=The Wide World Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative, Travel, Customs, and Sport |date=1904 |publisher=George Newnes |pages=38 |language=en}}</ref> The traditional story has been that the boy was brought to the attention of Bulandshahr's district magistrate after hunters discovered the child in a cave in the [[Bulandshahr District|district of Bulandshahr]].<ref name=Ferros1902>{{cite book |last1=Ferros |first1=George C. |title=Sanichar the wolf boy of India .. |date=1902 |publisher=[n.p.] |pages=22–28 |url=https://archive.org/details/lanicharwolfboyo00ferr/page/22/mode/2up?q=magistrate|location=New Year City}}</ref><ref name=Notes1886>{{cite book |title=Notes and Queries |date=1886 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLeLZtG33ZwC&dq=william+henry+lowe+bulandshahr&pg=PA178 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Ha>{{cite book |last1=Ha |first1=James C. |last2=Campion |first2=Tracy L. |title=Dog Behavior: Modern Science and Our Canine Companions |date=2018 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=978-0-12-816746-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gON8DwAAQBAJ&dq=bulandshahr%C2%A0&pg=PA176 |language=en}}</ref> This magistrate has been cited as being Lowe.<ref name=Ferros1902/><ref name=Notes1886/><ref>{{cite news |title=Wolf boys |publisher=North British Advertiser & Ladies' Journal |date=5 September 1885 |page=3}}</ref> However, Lowe had died five years earlier.<ref name=Sketches1884/> A letter from [[W. F. Prideaux]] to the editor of the ''North British Advertiser and Ladies Journal'' (1885) questioned the authenticity of 'wolf boys' in general, and of particularly the one at the "orphanage at Secundra, near Agra".<ref name=Prid1885>{{cite news |title=Letters to the editor |work=Newspaper: North British Advertiser & Ladies' Journal County |date=5 September 1885 |location=Midlothian, Scotland |page=3}}</ref> Prideaux requested the name of the magistrate and further details of the wolf boy.<ref name=Prid1885/> In response, the orphanage replied that the boy came to them in 1867 after being found by William Lowe, then collector of Bulandshahr".<ref name=Prid1885/><ref name=Zingg1940>{{cite journal |last1=Zingg |first1=Robert M. |title=Feral Man and Extreme Cases of Isolation |journal=The American Journal of Psychology |date=1940 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=487–517 |doi=10.2307/1417630 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1417630 |issn=0002-9556|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Prideaux noted that no official report on the story existed, and the year and Officer's name was given from a recollection sufficiently long after to question its accuracy.<ref name=Prid1885/>

==Death and legacy==
Lowe died on 30 July 1862, a day before a planned move to England.<ref name=Sketches1884/><ref name=South1862>{{cite news |title=Died |publisher=Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier |date=19 September 1862}}</ref> He is buried in the [[chancel]] of [[Bulandshahr]]'s [[All Saints Church, Bulandshahr|All Saints Church]], which had been commissioned by his widow.<ref name=Sketches1884/> The Lowe memorial building by the district magistrate's court, acting as a shelter for those attending the courts, was named for him.<ref name=Sketches1884/><ref name=Atk1876>{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Edwin Thomas |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 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9jaXsOc-tEC&dq=All+Saints+Church&pg=PA127 |language=en}}</ref> The inscription read;<ref name=Atk1876/>
<blockquote>This building has been erected by the Europeans and native-official and non-official residents of the station and district as a token of their respect and esteem, and as a memorial of the late William Henry Lowe, Esquire, who died while collector of this district on the 30th of July 1862, AD.</blockquote>

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File:All Saints Church, Bulandshahr.jpg|All Saints Church, Bulandshahr
File:William Henry Lowe (d.1862) grave.jpg|Lowe's grave in the chancel of the church
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Frederick Pollen]]

==References==
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