Rowed number 3 for the Kent School, Connecticut, Henley Crew.
He attended the Kent School followed by a year as a prefect at Brighton College in Brighton, England, with the English Speaking Union. He graduated from Yale University as a member of the Class of 1967.
He served as a captain in the U.S. Army and did tours in both South Korea and South Vietnam. He founded and was president of Buttonwood Securities investment firm for 17 years and more recently was an executive director of investments at CIBC Oppenheimer in Boston.
Mr. Towle is survived by a son, Sidney III; two daughters, Caroline Closuit and Stephanie; a sister, Diana Reardon; a nephew, Max Jallifier; a brother, Alexis; and a grandchild, Christopher Closuit.
Born in Woolwich in 1806. Attended the University of Cambridge. Matriculated in Michaelmas 1832 (Caius); B.A. 1836; M.A. 1839; LL.D. 1854. Fellow, 1838-77; bursar, 1855-7. Called to the Bar, 1840. On the Cambridge, Huntingdon and Bedford Sessions. Assessor to the Vice-Chancellor, 1852. Serjeant-at-Law, 1858. Recorder of Bury St Edmunds, 1861-77. Appealed, 1849, to Prince Albert, as Chancellor, to interfere in what he regarded as irregularities in certain College procedure; this was taken very seriously by Dr Chapman, the Master, and Tozer was admonished for breach of statute as the Chancellor was not concerned. Author of "On Probability"; "On Identity of Method in the Search for Truth", etc. Died Dec. 8, 1877, at his residence, 4, James Street, Buckingham Gate.