Hudson Lowe
1769–1844
Army officer and colonial governor. Served in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe before becoming governor of St Helena and gaoler to Napoleon I, 1816–21. Knighted, 1814.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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