Lowe family

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Landed family in Derbyshire who accumulated wealth through various business activities and invested in landed estates. Traced their rise to Lawrence Lowe, a wealthy lawyer of the late 15th century who married an heiress. John Lowe, 1642-1722, was the first to mine coal under the estate. Richard Lowe, 1716-85, in due course inherited the estate. He was a wealthy woollen draper in London and a contractor for the supply of clothing to the army. He established an interest in the bankers Raymond William Vere & Fletcher, who were later to emerge as Williams Deacon's Bank, and also developed the family's coal mines. William Drury Lowe, 1753-1827, held a substantial interest in the Derby Canal which served his coal mines