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'''Sir George Rivers Lowndes''', [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]], [[Queen's Counsel|KC]] (1862–1943), was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and judge.<br />
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Lowndes was the son of Reverend Richard Lowndes Vicar of Sturminster & his wife Ann Harriet née Kaye. He married Hilda Julia Forbes on the 3rd of Sept. 1896 at Sturminster, Dorset. Their eldest son Richard Forbes Lowndes was killed aged 19 on the 14th Nov 1916 at the Somme, France.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34012/pages/139/page.pdf |publisher=London Gazette |date=5 January 1934 |page=139 |title=The London Gazette: Page 139 |issue=34012}}</ref><br />
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He practised before the [[High Court of Bombay]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indlii.org/ContentPages/Bombay%20High%20Court.htm |title=Bombay High Court |access-date=6 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411071648/http://indlii.org/ContentPages/Bombay%20High%20Court.htm |archive-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed to the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]] in 1929, at that time the [[court of last resort]] for the British Empire.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33474/pages/1567/page.pdf |publisher=London Gazette |date=5 March 1929 |page=1567 |issue=33474 |title=The London Gazette: Page 1567}}</ref> He retired from the Judicial Committee in 1934, being replaced by [[Lancelot Sanderson|Sir Lancelot Sanderson]], a former Chief Justice of the [[High Court of Calcutta]].<br />
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