Andrew Low

Andrew Low II (20 July 1812 – 27 June 1886) was a Scottish-American cotton merchant.

Early life Low was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 20 July 1812. He was a son of William Low and Katherine ( Reid) Low.

In 1854, five years after Sarah's death, Low remarried, to Mary Cowper Stiles (1832–1863), a daughter of U.S. Representative William Henry Stiles and Elizabeth Ann ( Mackay) Stiles. Her father also served as U.S. Chargé to the Austrian Empire. Together, they were the parents of:

Katie Mackay Low (1855–1923), who died unmarried. in 1888.

The Andrew Low Carriage House, part of the Juliette Gordon Low Historic District, is at 330 Drayton Street in Savannah.

Low died on 27 June 1886 at his home, Beauchamp Hall, Leamington Spa, in Warwickshire, England. His body was returned to America and he was buried alongside his wives at Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery.

Descendants Through his daughter Jessie, he was posthumously a grandfather of four: Ronald Andrew Hugh Graham, Sybil Hattie Hermione Graham, Murial Mary Graham and Alastair Hugh Graham (1904–1982), an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh who was considered an inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited.