Honouring the ancestors

James Lewis Lowery

Abstract

I feel privileged to have been invited to write in honour of Lewis as one of the tipuna (ancestors) of this Association. In this enjoyable exercise I have been helped greatly by the generous input of information from Joy Lowery, members of the immediate family, friends and colleagues who have shared a wide variety of perspectives. What follows is not meant to be a eulogy or a repetition of tributes offered already in the aftermath of Lewis's death, but rather a personal portrait of the man in his essential humanity.