Mark Antony Lower

An anti-Catholic propagandist,[1] Lower is believed to have started the "cult of the Sussex Martyrs",[1][2] although he was against the excesses of the "Bonfire Boys".

[5] It appears he showed an early interest in heraldry as a painted coat of arms in the local church is attributed to him.

His biography credits him with writing a note complaining of the excesses of the "Bonfire Boys", and he had himself been an active member of the Lewes New Temperance Society.

In 1868 a figure dressed as the "Bishop of Lewes" warned protestants of the Roman Catholic threat and the following year an effigy of the pope was to be blown up with gunpowder.

[9] Lower published numerous articles for the Sussex Archaeological Society and he was employed for a number of years as a secretary.