Sir Hudson Lowe KCB

Order of the Bath

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, GCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 (28 July 176910 January 1844) was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

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 soldier

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 and colonial administrator  who is best known for his time as Governor of St Helena where he was the "gaoler" of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The son of John Lowe, an army surgeon

Surgeon

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, he was born at Galway

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 in Ireland

Ireland

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, his mother's native country. His childhood was spent in various garrison towns, particularly in the West Indies, but he was educated chiefly at Salisbury Grammar.