Family and Education
bap. 13 Aug. 1694, 4th but 2nd surv. s. Add. 34516, f. 55; EHR, xxx. 91. of John Lowther, 2nd bt., (later Visct. Lonsdale), of Lowther and Katherine, da. of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne of Kempsford, Glos.; bro. Richard Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lonsdale and Anthony Lowther‡. educ. Lowther Sch., Lowther Hall; travelled abroad (Netherlands) 1713-15; Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Arch. and Antiq. Soc. n.s. iv. 70; Add. 61463, f. 135-6. Cambridge LLD 1717. unm. d. 7 Mar. 1751; will 27 May 1747 – 8 June 1749, pr. 28 Mar. 1751. TNA, PROB 11/786.
Offices Held
Gent. of the bedchamber 1717 – 27; PC 4 Nov. 1726; ld. privy seal 1733 – 35.
Custos rot. Westmld. 1715 – d.; ld. lt., Tower Hamlets 1726 – 31, Cumb. and Westmld 1738 – d.; constable, Tower of London 1726 – 31.
FRS 1742.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Lowther Hall, Westmld.HMC Lonsdale, 121, 123-4, 126-7.;
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Lords 1660-1715
Will
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Oxford 1644
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