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Percy Lowe
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Percy Roycroft Lowe (January 2, 1870 - August 18, 1948) was an English surgeon and ornithologist.
Lowe was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire and studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge. He served as a civil surgeon in the Boer War, and it was whilst in South Africa that he became interested in ornithology. On his return he became private physician to Sir Frederic Johnstone, and during World War One was medical officer on an ambulance ship in the Mediterranean.
In November 1919 he succeeded William Robert Ogilvie-Grant as Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum, retiring on his sixty-fifth birthday in 1935. He was succeeded by Norman Boyd Kinnear.
He was president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1938 to 1943.
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