Career
He practised before the High Court of Bombay. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1929, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire. He retired from the Judicial Committee in 1934, being replaced by Sir Lancelot Sanderson, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta.
Their eldest son Richard Forbes Lowndes was KIA aged 19 on the 14th November 1916 at the Somme, France.