Sir George Rivers Lowndes, KCSI, KC, PC (1862–1943), was a lawyer and judge in British India, who served as Advocate-General of Bombay and Minister of Law as Law Member of the Viceregal Executive Council, during which time he chaired the select committee tasked in with the general revision of the Indian criminal code.
He married Hilda Julia Forbes on the 3rd of Sept. 1896 at Sturminster, Dorset.
Their eldest son Richard Forbes Lowndes was killed aged 19 on the 14th Nov 1916 at the Somme, France.
[3] Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1929, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire.
[4] He retired from the Judicial Committee in 1934, being replaced by Sir Lancelot Sanderson, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta.