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Cecil Champain Lowis was born in Bengal 30 June 1866 the son of Susan Mary (Curry) and Edward Elliott Lowis and educated at Newton College, Devon, at Göttingen Gymnasium, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He married Sarah Josselyn Man on 11 September 1894 at St. Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London. He died c 9 October 1948 (dates seen vary) at Godalming, Surrey.
He was appointed to the Indian Civil Service after examinations in 1885 and was appointed to a district in Burma in 1888. He served in Burma as magistrate and travelling judge. He also conducted the Census of India, in Burma, and was lent to the Egyptian government in order to conduct the Census of Egypt in 1907. He then returned as Superintendent of Ethnography, Burma, until he retired in 1912.<ref> The majority of the biographical information is taken from [httphttps://oldwww.manfamily.org/Lowis_Family.htm about/other-families/lowis-family/ Lowis Family] old.manfamily.org</ref>.
During the 1914-1918 war he served in France from 1917 in the Labour Corps, and was until May 1918, in command of an Labour Company as acting Captain. He was promoted to temporary Lieutenant, Indian Labour Corps, 30 January 1919, but further details are not known.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011125832 ''The Machinations of the Myo-ok''] by Cecil Lowis 1903 Archive.org. "Myo-ok" means in Burmese "township officer"
*[https://archive.org/details/fascination00lowiiala ''Fascination''] by Cecil Champain Lowis 1913 Archive.org
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008669254 ''Four Blind Mice''] by Cecil Champain Lowis 1920 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/fourblindmice/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030752474?urlappend=%3Bseq=9%3Bownerid=13510798884842149-13 ''Green Sandals''] by Cecil Champain Lowis 1926 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/greensandals/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[https://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/details/districtbungalow/page/n7/mode/books?id=4k5FAAAAIAAJ 2up ''The District Bungalow''] by Cecil Champain Lowis 1928. Searchable Google Books. May be viewable in some areas of the world. Note, catalogued title by Google Books includes ''Distric'' Archive.org
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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC&pg=PA220 "Lowis, Cecil Champain"] page 220 (scroll down) ''Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2'' by John Venn. Reprint edition, originally published in many parts between 1922 and 1954. Google Books.
