Henry Dawson Lowry (22 February 1869 – 21 October 1906) was an English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet.

[4] In 1891, Lowry's Cornish stories were accepted by W. E. Henley for publication in the National Observer and a number of his subsequent novels focussed on life in Cornwall.

[5] Lowry wrote under the pseudonym "The Impenitent" for the Daily Express and occasionally contributed to other newspapers and magazines.

[6] In 1896, Lowry was the subject of a pencil drawing by Australian artist Percy Spence that is now held at the National Portrait Gallery.

[1] Lowry's cousin Catherine Amy Dawson Scott,[3] who did some editing of his poetry,[3] used text by Lowry adapting one of her own novels (The Haunting, 1921) into the libretto for the opera Gale by Ethel Leginska, which premiered in Chicago at the Civic Opera House, with John Charles Thomas in the lead, on 23 November 1935.