Henry Dawson Lowry
Henry Dawson Lowry (22 February 1869 – 21 October 1906) was an English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet. Early Life. Lowry was born at Truro, as the eldest son of Thomas Shaw Lowry, bank clerk at Truro, afterwards bank manager at Camborne, by his wife Winifred Dawson of Redhill. Catherine Amy Dawson Scott was his cousin. Educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and then at the University of Oxford (unattached to a particular Oxford college) with B.A. in chemistry in 1891. Writing and Career. In 1891, Lowry's Cornish stories were accepted by W. E. Henley  for publication in the "National Observer" and a number of his subsequent novels focussed on life in Cornwall. Two years later, in 1893 Lowry took up residence in London and wrote for the "Pall Mall Gazette", becoming a staff member in 1895. Subsequent to this, Lowry was on the staff of "Black and White" from 1895 to 1897. Early in 1897, Lowry became the editor of the "Ludgate Magazine" and later in the year joined the staff of the "Morning Post". In his career at the "Pall Mall Gazette", the "Black and White", "Ludgate Magazine", and the "Morning Post", Lowry  worked closely with James Nicol Dunn and Lowry dedicated his 1895 book "Women's Tragedies" to Dunn. Lowry wrote under the pseudonym "The Impenitent" for the "Daily Express" and occasionally contributed to other newspapers and magazines. In 1896, Lowry was the subject of a pencil drawing by Australian artist Percy Spence, now held at the National Portrait Gallery. Later life and legacy. Lowry was consistently sickly throughout his life and died at his home at Herne Hill, south London, of pneumonia on 22 October 1906 aged 37 and is buried in a graveyard in Norwood, London. In 1912, Edgar Preston  wrote a memoir of Lowry in "A Dream of Daffodils; Last Poems" by H.D. Lowry, where he described Lowry thus: 'his whole story was composed of a few small volumes of verse, some earnest friendships, one passion, and a premature death'. Lowry's cousin Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, who did some editing of his poetry, used text by Lowry adapting one of her own novels ("The Haunting", 1921) into the libretto for the opera "Gale" by Ethel Leginska, which premiered in Chicago at the Civic Opera House, with John Charles Thomas in the lead, on 23 November 1935. Henry Dawson