Percival Lowle

Abt 1570 - 1665  (~ 95 years)

• Name	Percival Lowle  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1570	Portbury, Somerset, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England   [5]
  Alternate death	8 Jan 1664	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Death	8 Jan 1665	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I21237	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Richard Lowle,   b. Abt 1535, Somerset, England d. Bef 7 Jun 1577 (Age ~ 42 years)
  Mother	Christian Percival   d. Aft 7 Jun 1577
  Marriage	Abt 1570  [3, 5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F13400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca   d. 28 Feb 1645, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1600  [2, 3, 4, 8, 9]
  Children	1. John Lowell,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1604   d. 10 Jul 1647, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 42 years)   2. Anne Lowell,   b. Aft 1614   d. 27 Nov 1690, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 74 years)
  Family ID	F12571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2021

  
  

• Notes

  One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and LDN's sole one so far. He emigrated to New England in 1639, when he was an old man, with his wife and several other family members, including his son John and John's first wife whose name has been lost. The ship on which they travelled was probably the Jonathan. Before emigrating he was an assessor for the parish of Kingston Seymour in Somerset, and (probably) a merchant in Bristol. His descendants include the "Boston Brahmin" Lowell family, as in "the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God." Notable individuals descended from him include: James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), poet, critic, editor, abolitionist, and diplomat Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864), Civil War general Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Arizona, brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), president of Harvard University, 1909-33, brother of Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell Amy Lowell (1874-1925), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Nobel Prize-winning poet Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright William Bundy (1917-2000), foreign-policy advisor to JFK & LBJ McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996), brother of the above, National Security Advisor to JFK and LBJ, architect of the Vietnam War Elliot Richardson (1920-1999), resigned as Nixon's Attorney General rather than obey Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (1941- ), 46th Vice President and servant of Beelzebub Tuesday Weld (1943- ), American actress

  
  

• Sources

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