LOWRY, RICHARD JENNINGS, was chief mate in the Tory, which brought the New Zealand Company's preliminary expedition to Port Nicholson (1839). He assisted in the survey of the harbour, his name being given to Lowry Bay. In Apr 1840 he succeeded Chaffers in command of the vessel. Lowry died at sea in the East Indies about Oct and the command of the vessel passed to his brother Nicholas, who had joined her in Sydney. She was wrecked on the Half Moon shoal in Palawan passage (23 Jan 1841), and Nicholas died at sea on board an American whaler.

N.Z.C.; E. J. Wakefield; Ward.

Reference: Volume 1, page 269

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