with Lowson's worst season and though he returned to form in 1956, he was injured for part of 1957 and wholly out of form in 1958. At the end of the 1958 season, Yorkshire having endured the least successful period in its history in terms of lack of County Championship success, the Yorkshire committee and new captain Ronnie Burnet decided to go for a policy of youth and dispensed with the services of several senior players, including Johnny Wardle, Bob Appleyard and Lowson. The move was a success in that Yorkshire won the Championship the following season, 1959, but Lowson went back to League cricket at the age of 33, and never played first-class cricket again. He went on to build a career in insurance. J. M. Kilburn, the former cricket correspondent of the Yorkshire Post, summed up Lowson's career when he wrote: "He had all the attributes of a Test cricketer except, perhaps, the driving force of ambition". Lowson died in Pool-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire, in September 1984, at the age of 59. Lowson's family is still involved in the game. Two grandchildren of his cousin Charles (1921–2005) have been involved in the game, Alan Pritchard (born 1973) has played for Stafford Cricket Club whilst great-nephew (and grandson of Charles) Matthew (born 1990) is involved in the sport as an umpire. References 1925 births 1984 deaths England Test cricketers English cricketers Yorkshire cricketers Cricketers from Bradford English cricketers of 1946 to 1968 Players cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers North v South cricketers