Lowth was born at Billingborough, Lincolnshire on 4 November 1858. Having received elementary school education, he entered the railway service with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1875 and moved to Manchester. He worked on the railway for 23 years, doing various jobs, then became the general secretary of the General Railway Workers' Union in 1898, a trade union he had helped to establish.
Lowth died at the age of 72 in the Royal Northern Hospital in London.
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^"Another M. P. Dead". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne. 27 May 1931. p. 1. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.