Alfred Joseph Lowe

He was born on 1 August 1789, the son of Joseph Hurst Lowe (1766-1817) and Elizabeth Langstaff (1770-1826).

He died on 10 August 1856 at Highfield House, Nottingham and was interred at the family vault in Sneinton.

[2] As a horticulturalist, he developed the estate at Highfield House, Nottingham by planting Cedrus deodara, Cupressus excelsa, Cryptomeria Japonica, Aurucaria Ombricata, Scotch Pine, Portuguese Laurels, Myrtles and Arbutus.

[3] In the Nottingham Horticultural competition of 1853 he was awarded the Silver Cup for the best collection of greenhouse plants.

As a meteorologist and astronomer, he built an observatory at Highfield House which was equipped with a barometer, a telescope on the roof, Negretti thermometers to determine terrestrial radiation and solar radiation, wet and dry bulb thermometers by Barrow, minimum and maximum thermometers by Bennett, rain gauges, an ozonometer, a wind vane 54 feet (16 m) high with Lind's anemometer.