Lowell, Percival
author, was born in 1855 in Massachusetts. He is a Boston writer, traveler, and astronomical investigator; and the author of Chosön, a sketch of Korea; The Soul of the Far East; Noto: an Unexplored Corner of Japan; Occult Japan; and Mars.
LOWELL, ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE, educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 8, 1816, in Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman and educator, head master of St. Mark's school of Southborough in 1869-73, and professor of Latin at Union college in 1873-79. After the latter date he continued to live at Schenectady, which is the locale of his book, A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town, as Southborough suggests that of his popular story of school life, Antony Brade. His other works include The New Priest in Conception Bay, a novel of life in Newfoundland, the scene of his first rectorship; and Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years Ago, and Other Poems.
The Defence of Lucknow is his most familiar poem. He died in 1891.