title: Richard Thomas Lowe
text: # Richard Thomas Lowe
  
  Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English scientist, a botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and a clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832 he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. He died in 1874 when the ship he was on was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly.
  
  ## Taxa
  
  Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including:
  
  * Caseolus, a land snail genus and eight species within it
  * Lemniscia, a land snail genus and two species within it
  