LONSDALE. 139 April 1655 at Hackthorp Hall in Lowther; ed. at Kendal and Jedburgh; mat. at Oxford (Queen's Coll.) 12 July 16/0; sua. his grandfather as 2nd Bart.('») [S.j 30 Nov. 1675 ; Barrister (Inner Temple) 1677 ; M.P. for Westmorland (in seven parls.) 1675-96 ; a zealous promoter of the Revolution ; P.C. 1689 ; Vice Chamberlain of the household, 10S9-91 ; Lord Lieut, of Cumberland and Westmorland, 1689-91 ; First Lord of the Treasury, March to Nov. 1091 , being a: 23 May 1696, BA HON LOWTHER of Lowther, co. Westmorland and VISCOUNT LONSDALE, co. Westmorland ; Lord I'mvY Ska i., 28 May 1099 till his death; one of the "Lords Justices " [Regents] during the King's absence() 30 May to IS Oct. 1099, and 27 June 1700 ; F.R.S. 1099, He hi. 3 Dec. 1071, at Westm. Abbey, Katharine, 2d and yst. da. of Sir Henry Fred- erick ThYNNE, let Bart, of Kemp.sford, by Mary, da. of Thomas (CoVENTIiv), 1st BaHON Coventry ok AylKSBORODCR. He d. 10 July 1700 aged 15 and was bur. at Lowther. Will pr. IS Oct. 1700 and 2 April 17M.( C ) His widow.C) who was 4. 21 Sep 1653 at Caus Castle, Salop, was bur. at Lowther 1713. Her will dat. 30 Sep. 1711, pr. 25 June 1713 and 19 July 1723. IT. 1700. 2. Richard (Lowtuer), Viscount Lonsdale, &C., s. and h., 4. 1692, sue to the peerage in 1700. He d. (of the smalt pox) num. 1 Dec. 1713 and was bur. at Lowther. Will pr. March 1711. III. 1713 3. Henry (Lowtiier), Viscount Lonsdale ami Baron to Lowther [1696], also a Baronetp) [S.], br.and h. ; b. 1691; sue. to 1751. the peerage 1713; distinguished himself in raising 10,000 men to oppose the Jacobite rising in 1715 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 1717 ; LL D. of Cambridge, 7 Oct. 1717 ; Constable of the Tower of Lou- don, 1726-31 ; P.C. 1726 ; a Commissioner of Claims at the Corou. of George II, 12 Aug. 1727 ; Lord Privy Seal, 1733-35 ; Lord Lieut, of Cumberland and Westmor- land, 1710 ; F.R.S., 1712. He d. num., 12 March 1750/1, at Byram, co. York, when his peerage dignities became cx/inct. Will dat. 27 May 1717, pr. 1751, in which he devised his estates to his heir male (and, ex snrorc, great nephew) as under. Viscountcy. 1. £m James Lowther, Bart.( a ) [S.], cousin a.nd heir IV 1781 raa ' e > being 2d but 1st surv. s. and li. of Robert Lowther, of Mauds Meaburn, eo. Westmorland, Gov. of Barbadoes, by Catherine, Earldom. da. of Sir Joseph PENNINGTON, 2d Bart., of Muneaster (by Margaret, T 17SA sister to Henry, Viscount Lonsdale, abovenamed), which Robert 1. i/oi, ( w ho d. 1715, aged 63), was s. and h. of Richard Lowther, of t° Mauds Meaburn afsd. (4. 1638), -who was 2d surv. s. of Sir John 1802. Lowther, 1st Bart.( a ) [&], the grandfather of the 1st Viscount. He was 4. 5 Aug. and bap. 0 Sep. 1736, at St. George's Bloomsbury, and sue, 12 March 1750/1, as 5th Baronct( :> ) [S.] ou the death of his cousin [and great uncle] Henry, Viscouut Lonsdale, abovenamed, whose estates he also inherited, as he did subsequently the estate of Whitehaven, and near £'1, 000,000, ou the death, 2 Jan. 1755, of his cousin, Sir James Lowther, 1th Bart., of Whitehaven. (°) He was ed. at Cambridge; was M.P. for Cumberland, 1757-01; for Westmorland, 1761-63; for Cumberland (again), 1762-08 ; for Cockermouth, 1769-71, and for Cumberland (the 3d time), 1774-84, and was cr., 21 May 17Sl,( r ) BARON LOWTHER, of Lowther, co. Westmorland, BARON OF THE BARONY OF KENDAL in the said county and BAltON OF THE BAltONY OF BURGH, co. Cumberland, also VISCOUNT (») Vidt p. 13S, note "e." (*>) See vol. iii, p. 115, note "c," s;<4. "Devonshire" for a list of these Regents during the reign of William III. ( c ) Extracts from an interesting memoir of him, which, " tho' printed is not pub- lished " is given in "Collins vol. v, pp. 705-708. (>') A second wife is sometimes attributed to him (see " Collins " edit. 1789) but manifestly iu error. ( u ) The Baronetcy of Lowther of Whitehaven (<.■>•. 1612) became extinct on his death in 1755. (f) The celebrated William Pitt owed his first seat (that of Appleby, 1781-84), to Sir James Lowther (thro' the request of the Duke of Rutland) and the shower of peerages rained upon him in 1784 was tho result.
