Richard Charles Lowndes

Major Richard Charles Lowndes (1888 – 1960) was a British Royal Artillery officer and influential British freemason.

Family Richard Charles Lowndes (11 July 1888 – 1960) was the elder son of The Rev. William Dobson Lowndes, of Christ's College, Cambridge, of Little Comberton Rectory, Pershore, Worcestershire, and Pershore District Councillor who was a daughter of Major-General Richard Clement Moody (who was the founder of British Columbia) and of Mary Susannah Hawks of the Hawks industrialist dynasty. He had two sisters: Mary de Clervaux, and Margaret Alice, They had at least one son, Andrew Lowndes (1921 - 2003).

He served in the Royal Artillery, into which he was commissioned in 1909,

Freemasonry Lowndes was a member of at least six freemasonic lodges. He was a Royal Arch freemason of Ubique Chapter No. 1789, of which he served as First Principal, and a founder of Old Malvernian Lodge No. 4363. He was initiated into Mount Everest Lodge No. 2439 in Darjeeling, India, which is now known as Mount Everest Lebong Lodge No. 52. and a Celebrant of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

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