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Authorised form of nameLowther; John (1655 - 1700); 1st Viscount Lonsdale; politician
Dates1655 - 1700
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHackthorpe Hall, Lowther, Westmoreland, England
Date of birth25 April 1655
Place of deathLowther
Date of death10 July 1700
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Lowther Church, Westmoreland, England
OccupationPolitician
ActivityEducation:
Kendal Grammar School; Sedbergh School; Queen's College, Oxford (matriculated 1670); Inner Temple (admitted 1671)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1677); MP for Westmoreland (1676-1696); Commissioner for Assessment for Cumberland, Westmoreland and the North Riding of Yorkshire (1677-1680, 1689-1690); Custos Rotulorum for Westmoreland (1678-death); rebuilt Lowther Hall and the Rectory and Church of Lowther (1685); Governor of Carlisle (1689-1690); Vice-Chamberlain of the household to William III (1689-1694); Privy Councillor (1689-death); Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmoreland (1690-1694); First Lord of the Treasury (1690); badly wounded in a duel (1691); Lord Privy Seal (1699-death)
Honours:
Baron Lowther of Lowther and Viscount Lonsdale (1696)
Memberships:
Ironmakers' Company
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/12/1699
RelationshipsParents: Colonel John Lowther of Lowther and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, Bart, of Hilsington, Westmoreland
Siblings: Mary Lowther
Half siblings: William Lowther (1668–1694)
Spouse: Katherine, daughter of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, Bart, of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, and Mary, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, and cousin of George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (FRS 1675)
Children: Richard Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lonsdale (1692–1713); Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale (1694–1751); Hon. Mary Lowther (c. 1676–1706); Hon. Elizabeth Lowther; Hon. Margaret Lowther (d. 1728); Hon. Barbara Lowther (d. 1716); Hon. Anthony Lowther (d. 1741); Hon. Jane Lowther (d. 1752)
Cousin: Sir John Lowther (FRS 1664)
Hereditary titles: Succeeded his grandfather as 2nd Baronet (1675)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Foster; Henning
Biographical Memoir by Dorothy Hodgkin [Tracts 430/11]
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/59263727
CodeNA6107
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