LOWDER, CHARLES FUGE: London mission
preacher; b. at Bath June 22, 1820; d. at Zell-am-See (40 m. s.s.w. of Salzburg), Austria, Sept. 9,
1880. He studied at King's College School, London, and at Exeter College, Oxford (B.A., 1843;
M.A., 1845), and took orders in 1843. He was
curate at Walton, near Glastonbury, 1843-44, chaplain of the Axbridge workhouse 1844-45, curate of
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, 1845--51, then curate at
St. Barnabas' Church, Pimlico, 1851-56. In 1856
he entered upon his life-work as head of the mission at St. George's-in-the-East. The scene of his
labors was in East London, among the lowest
classes. Through his efforts was erected St. Peter's
Church, London Docks, which was consecrated in
1866. Lowder became vicar of the new church and
remained in this charge till his death. He held Highchurch views, was a strict ritualist, and resembled a
Roman Catholic priest in his celibacy and his general
mode of life. He published, besides some pamphlets,
Ten Years in St. George's Mission (London, 1867);
and
Twenty-one Years in St. George's Mission (1877).
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Charles Lowder, a Biography, London, 1882;
DNB, xxxiv. 187.