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Charles Lowther (sculptor)
Charles Lowther may refer to: * Sir Charles Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1803–1894) *Sir Charles Lowther, 4th Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bingham Lowther, 4th Baronet (22 July 1880 – 22 January 1949), was the grandson of Sir Charles Lowther, 3rd Baronet, of Swillington and succeeded to his baronetcy in 1894. Educated at Sandhurst, he was gazetted ... (1880–1949) * Sir Charles Douglas Lowther, 6th Baronet (b. 1946), of the Lowther Baronets {{hndis, name=Lowther, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Lowther, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles Hugh Lowther, 3rd Baronet (26 September 1803 – 6 November 1894) was an English landowner, the third son of Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet and Lady Elizabeth Fane. Lowther was blind from infancy due to an attack of scarlet fever. His mother imported the first embossed books in England for his benefit in 1821. On 10 May 1834, he married Isabella Morehead (died 2 July 1887). They had two sons: *George William Lowther (28 March 1837 – 6 February 1890) * James Lowther (1840–1904), who inherited Wilton Castle from his father. Lowther was a benefactor of William Moon, funding the construction of his workroom in 1856 and donating to the Moon Society, which distributed literature for the blind in Moon type. He inherited the family baronetcy from his brother in 1868. Dying in 1894 at the age of ninety, Lowther was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Charles Bingham Lowther. Sir Charles' coach can be seen in the carriage collection at Shibden Hall, Halifax. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Lowther, 4th Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bingham Lowther, 4th Baronet (22 July 1880 – 22 January 1949), was the grandson of Sir Charles Lowther, 3rd Baronet, of Swillington and succeeded to his baronetcy in 1894. Educated at Sandhurst, he was gazetted a second lieutenant in the 21st Lancers on 12 August 1899. Lowther served as an officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, reaching the rank of captain before transferring into the Northamptonshire Yeomanry on 4 May 1911. DSO 1917, was awarded the Croce di Guerra 17 May 1919, and made an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy on 2 March 1923. Lowther was Master of the Pytchley Hounds from 1914 to 1927. He sold the Swillington estate in 1920 and after living at Thornby House, Northamptonshire for some years he settled at Erbistock Hall, Denbighshire. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1926 and deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire 29 July 1922. He retired from the Territorial Army as a lieutenant colonel on 3 Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Douglas Lowther, 6th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms or Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
