SIR ROBERT LOW.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10058, 27 July 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

SIR ROBERT LOW.

General Sir Robert Loir lisa been ex. tremely lnoky, for jait as he bad been passed over for the command of the Ben* gal division of the Indian army, which signified in all probability the ending of his aotive career, XJmra Shan, the Napoleon of the Indian frontier, as some of his admirers oalled him, Incurred our resentment and supplied hlai with an opportunity of showing what an. Interesting and dashing oommander itill remained on the rotaof onr Eastern army. The success of onr anna in Swat haa been mainly due to the npidity of the attack, and to General Low having roa. lised that the opposition of the hostile tribes wonld be broken by an advance without delay aoross the Swat river to Aladand and Dir. General Low was one of the smartest cavalry offioen in the Indian army, and cavalrymen will view with some feeling* of pride the nnnsual dash and enterprise with whioh ho haa carried the wa» far into tae enemy's country, and that with the minimum of warning and preparation. Sir Robert Low" is the younger fon of General Sir John Low, of Clatto, Fife, •hire, who w»g called the Nestor of th» Indian Army, and who died at a great bro In 1879 Sir Bobert'a elder brother. Mr Malcolm Low, was a distinguished - Anglo-Indian civilian, who for soma> yean was Conservative member for Grantham, and who' married Lady Ida Feildiug, sister of the late, and annt of the present, Lord Denbigh. ■ It la not without interest to mention that the Lows aie cousins of Thackeray, through tho Shakeipeare family, which gave the old Indian army one of its paladins in Sir Rlghjoond Shakeipaara,