Louis T. Leonowens
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Louis Thomas Cunnis Leonowens (25 October 1856 – 17 February 1919) was a Briton who served as an officer with the Siamese royal cavalry and founded the trading company that bears his name.
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[edit] Early life
He was the son of Anna Leonowens of Anna and the King of Siam fame and Thomas Leon Owens, a civilian clerk, whom she married in India in 1849. He came to Siam (now Thailand) with his mother in 1862.
[edit] Career
Leonowens later returned to Siam (from Canada where his mother had settled) and became a captain in the Siamese royal cavalry. He later entered the teak trade and went on to found the trading company that bears his name to this day.
[edit] Later life
Leonowens died in 1919 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Leonowens married Caroline Knox, a daughter of Sir Thomas George Knox, the British consul-general in Bangkok (1824–1887), and a Siamese wife, Prang Somkok, who died in 1888.
