Samuel Lowder
Samuel Netterville Lowder, was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.Lowder was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He commanded a unit of marines which secured the island of Kotka on the coast of Finland during the Crimean War and then commanded a battalion of marines providing support to French forces during the French intervention in Mexico in 1863. He became colonel second commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in November 1864, colonel commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in September 1866 and Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines in July 1867 before retiring in July 1872.
