“ Lowndes entered the service of The Times in 1893, filling a vacancy on the sub-editorial staff which had been caused by the premature death of an elder brother, Charles Arthur Lowndes. He had had a good experience al-round journalism with the Manchester Evening Times, the Worcester Echo, and the Sheffield Independent, and he brought to his work great powers of application and an instinct, which never failed him, for sifting rapidly and decisively the good from the bad in the multifarious matter which came before him. ”

“ He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was a Ford student, and took honours in Classical Moderations and in Literae Humaniores. At Trinity he made good friends, and he always kept up his connexion with the college. ”