Lena Lowis  Lena Lowis (born Selina Caroline Shakespear) (3 November 1845, India - 18 November 1919, London) was an Indian-born writer, scientific and botanical illustrator, noted for her 1878 publication "Familiar Indian Flowers" which was advertised in "The Times" (London) in April 1881 as "with 30 coloured plates, 31s. 6d." Lena Lowis was the daughter of Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear (1812–1861), an Indian-born British Indian Army officer, who had married Marian Sophia Thompson at Agra, India on 5 March 1844. Their children were  She was married to Lt.-Col. Ninian Lowis (1838–1914), son of John Lowis, on 30 July 1868 at Horsley, Gloucestershire and they had a family consisting of