Thomas Lowry (racehorse breeder)

Thomas Henry Lowry (25 July 1865 – 23 September 1944) was a New Zealand farmer, cricketer and racehorse breeder.

[4] Lowry played one first-class cricket match, captaining Hawke's Bay to victory over Taranaki in 1892.

[6] He helped the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association bring out leading English professionals, including Albert Trott and Jack Board, to coach local players.

[7] Lowry developed Okawa, which had been largely a sheep and cattle farm, into one of New Zealand's leading racehorse studs.

[11] Lowry and Marsie had five children between 1898 and 1904:[12] Tom, who captained the Cambridge University cricket team and the New Zealand Test team and inherited Okawa; Jim (who won a tennis Blue at Cambridge University before returning to run part of Okawa);[13] Ralph (Rugby union Blue at Cambridge, another Lowry farmer, and the author of the book Taihape: Be Happy, Die Happy);[14] Gertrude (known as "Beet") (who married Tom's Cambridge University friend Percy Chapman, who captained the English Test cricket team);[15] and Marion (who married Reg Bettington, Oxford University cricket captain and later medical specialist).