Charles Rathbone Low

Charles Rathbone Low FRGS (1837–1918) was a British officer of the Indian Navy and writer.

The son of Major John Handcock Low of the East India Company and of the 39th Bengal Native Infantry, he was born in Dublin, in 1837.

[3] He was born in 1805, the youngest son of William John Low of Lowville, County Galway, and his wife the Hon.

She was the daughter of Robert Handcock, brother of Dean Richard Hancock, and his wife Jane Blackburne.

[1] He wrote in his History of the Indian Navy of serving in the HCS Mahi;[8] he was a midshipman on her from 1855, and rose to the rank of lieutenant.