OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26198, 23 August 1950, Page 2

OBITUARY

MISS CHARLOTTE LOWE One of the best known teachers in dancing to the older generation in Christcnurch, Miss Charlotte Lowe, died in Rangiora on Saturday in her eighty-ninth year. Members of the family, have been teachers of dancing for the last 200 years. A daughter of Mr Joseph Edgar Lowe, Miss Lowe was born in Dunedin. As a baby she was taken by her parents to Melbourne, where she grew up and where, with her sister sne later assisted her father with his dancing classes. Mr Lowe paid annual visits to Dunedin and Christchurch, and about 1897 Miss Charlotte Lowe began her visits here, teaching at Mrs Crosbie’s school in Park terrace, which later became the home of Sir Henry Wigram and Lady Wigram. Miss Lowe made her permanent home in Christchurch in the first years of this century, and then began a long association as a teacher of dancing with the principal schools in the city, lasting at least in one instance for some 35 years. Strong independence and a vivid personality were her characteristics. She lived alone in Worcester street West, until a few months ago when ill-health compelled a change and she went to the home of her brother, Mr Joseph E. Lowe, in Rangiora. Miss Lowe’s grandfather was a wellknown teacher of dancing in Edinburgh in the middle of last century. He was appointed as instructor in dancing to the children of Queen Victoria for successive years at such times when the Royal household was at Balmoral.