Lucy Alcock nee Windsor formerly Lowder was baptized on 29 August 1814 at St Mary's Chapel Walcot near Bath, the daughter of James William Windsor, missionary, and Alicia. She married (1) the Reverend John Samuel Lowder 1811 to 1849 on 1 September 1840 at St Swithn's Walcot. (Note by John Owen: John Lowder was the nephew of Thomas Henry Lowder who married Maria Lewis, my 4 x great aunt on my mother's side). Lucy and John Lowder had 5 children: Windsor 1841 - 1897, John Frederick 1843 - 1903, George Glass 1844 - 1880, Alicia Eirene 1845 - 1861 and Amy Henrietta 1847 - 1924 who married Sir Lewis Pelly. After John Lowder's death Lucy married (2) Sir John Rutherford Alcock 1809 - 1987 in Brussels on 8 July 1862. Here are some details of a letter she wrote to Kew when with her husband in China: Letter from [Lady] Lucy Alcock to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; from British Legation, Peking; 25 Nov 1867; four page letter comprising two images; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archives: Directors' Correspondence. Description. Alcock has not forgotten Hooker's instructions to send home any sheets or specimens of plants, but she has not yet succeeded in getting any. She took a Ward's case to the hills with her last summer and tried to strike some cuttings of the Popler [Poplar?] plant, of which she sent some dried seeds, but none has taken and there are no seeds to be procured. She will try again next summer and hopes for better luck. They have a very pretty Acacia there that she never sees in England; she describes the flower and sends a leaf and flower dried and some seeds. She also sends two ferns found at the hills, which are unlike those they have seen before, although they may be old friends of Hooker's. They made a trip to the Great Wall this autumn but she saw no new flowers or plants although she looked about carefully. Her husband wrote to Hooker last mail asking Hooker to send some vegetable seed. She wonders if Hooker might add in some watercress, mushroom seed and a little mustard and cress. The flower seeds do not succeed at all there, whether owing to the great heat or dry sandy soil, she does not know. On looking over their collection of dried plants Alcock finds a wild creeper that she does not remember seeing elsewhere. It is a parasite, quite white and succulent and it grows freely on the hills. She encloses a specimen for Hooker. Lucy died in London and was buried at Merstham on 17 March 1899.