The British Thong Society: Obituary: Charles Henry Lowds

Monday, June 26, 2006

Obituary: Charles Henry Lowds

It's with sad news that we report the death of Charles Henry Lowds, who for 57 years, was the Society's treasurer.

Henry was a popular figure in the society and one of the most devote believers of thong health. After making his fortune in India during the 1950s, Henry returned to the UK where he devoted his time to the cricket, and his love of horses. His loss will be felt by the world of champion hunt racing as it will by the thong world.

He was wearing his favourite Indian three piece thong right up to the moment of his death, aged 97. He will be buried in Stonelow Parish Church, this Monday, wearing his favourite thong and holding a jockey's whip.

He will be sorely missed.

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Sir Henry Peel was one of the greatest minds of the late Victorian age. He was an explorer, discovering some of the remotest tribes of South America, and travelled widely in the East, including China and Japan where he was one of the earliest Europeans to adopt the wearing of the fundoshi.

Returning to England, Sir Henry became a philanthropist, eventually setting up The British Thong Society.

His death in 1927 was one of the widely reported events of the decade. Each year at the small family church in Knots End, Surrey, members of the British Thong Society lay a commemorative thong on his grave to mark the very great things Sir Henry achieved and our abiding loyalty to his legacy.