Subseries 1 - Samuel Lowe Correspondence, 1806-1808

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MCCA/MCAD/11/2/1/1

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Samuel Lowe Correspondence, 1806-1808

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  • 1806 - 1808 (Creation)

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8 letters, paper

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(c. 1775/76 - 24 November 1834)

Biographical history

Educated at Southwell School, Nottinghamshire and Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted pensioner, 3 October 1793).

MA from Magdalene in 1802

He was a Fellow of Magdalene College from 1802-1814, and President from 1805-1810.

In 1802 he was appointed Steward, Librarian, and Registrar (he took on the duties of Bursar when Rev Thomas Paley was ill in 1805). He referred to himself as the Pepys Librarian.

Curate of Long Sutton, Hants
Curate of St Peter's, Duxford, 1806
Curate of St John's, Duxford, 1807
Rector of Darlaston, Staffordshire, 1814-1834

Married Marianne, daughter of Benjamin Maddock of Nottingham

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Correspondence relating to volumes sent to the Admiralty for the use of the Commissioners for Revising and Digesting the Civil Affairs of the Navy.

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      L/71/PLB/23

      Abbreviated former reference

      PLB 23

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          Sources

          Knighton, C.S. 'Some Pepysian addenda at Magdalene College Cambridge’. The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 86 no. 2 (2000).

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