E. H. N. Lowther

Ernest Herbert Newton Lowther (19 May 1890[1] - 28 April 1952) was a British Indian railways engineer, an ornithologist, and a pioneer of bird photography in India.

During his travels across India, he studied the life of birds and began to document their breeding behavior using nest photography.

Lowther was born in Lahore to Annie née Moore and Arthur John Newton who worked in the railways.

He became interested in egg-collecting but shifted to bird photography after listening to a lecture by Richard Kearton at school in Tonbridge.

While in the Etawah district, he looked at the birds in relation to historic records made by Allan Octavian Hume.