William Drury Lowe (landowner, born 1802)

William Drury-Lowe (5 October 1802 – 26 February 1877) was an English landowner who inherited the Locko Park lands and became a High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

He was the eldest son of Robert Holden of Darley Abbey and, through his wife née Mary-Anne Drury-Lowe, of Denby and Locko Park.

[2] After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he began to run the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.

In the 1850s, the Drury-Lowes lived abroad whilst extensive building work took place at Locko Park.

The building work included a picture gallery for the paintings they had obtained whilst in Italy.

Locko Hall in 1860 including the Italianate tower built for Drury-Lowe. [ 3 ]