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William Lowther (died C
William Lowther may refer to: Politicians * William Lowther (died c.1421), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) * William Lowther (MP for Appleby), in 1420, MP for Appleby (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir William Lowther (died 1688) (c. 1612–1688), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1661–1679 *Sir William Lowther (1639–1705), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1695–1698 *Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington (1663–1729), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1701–1710 and 1716–1729 * William Lowther (1668–1694), Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1692–1694 * Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske (1676–1705), Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1702–1705 * Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet (c. 1694–1763), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1729–1741 * Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1727–1756), Member of Parliament for Cumberland 1755–1756 *William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844), Member of Parliament for Carlisle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther (died C
William Lowther may refer to: Politicians * William Lowther (died c.1421), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) * William Lowther (MP for Appleby), in 1420, MP for Appleby (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir William Lowther (died 1688) (c. 1612–1688), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1661–1679 *Sir William Lowther (1639–1705), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1695–1698 *Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington (1663–1729), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1701–1710 and 1716–1729 * William Lowther (1668–1694), Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1692–1694 * Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske (1676–1705), Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1702–1705 * Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet (c. 1694–1763), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1729–1741 * Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1727–1756), Member of Parliament for Cumberland 1755–1756 *William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844), Member of Parliament for Carlisle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cumberland is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of Cumberland East and Cumberland West in 1832. Members of Parliament * ''Constituency created 1290'' MPs 1290–1640 MPs 1640–1832 *''Constituency abolished'' (1832) Notes Elections The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the town of Cockermouth. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contributed to the corruption and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther (MP For Appleby)
William Lowther may refer to: Politicians * William Lowther (died c.1421), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) * William Lowther (MP for Appleby), in 1420, MP for Appleby (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir William Lowther (died 1688) (c. 1612–1688), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1661–1679 *Sir William Lowther (1639–1705), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1695–1698 *Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington (1663–1729), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1701–1710 and 1716–1729 * William Lowther (1668–1694), Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1692–1694 * Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske (1676–1705), Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1702–1705 * Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet (c. 1694–1763), Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1729–1741 * Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1727–1756), Member of Parliament for Cumberland 1755–1756 *William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844), Member of Parliament for Carlisle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appleby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Appleby was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the county of Westmorland in England. It existed for two separate periods: from 1295 to 1832, and from 1885 to 1918. Appleby was enfranchised as parliamentary borough in 1295, and abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832. It returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) using the Plurality-at-large voting, bloc vote system. It was represented in the House of Commons of England until Acts of Union 1707, 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. Its best-known MP was William Pitt the Younger who became Prime Minister of Great Britain, prime minister in 1783 at the age of 24. For the 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 general election the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Redistribution of Seats Act created a county constituency of the same name, which returned a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther (died 1688)
Sir William Lowther (c. 1612 – February 1688) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. Life Lowther was the son of Sir John Lowther of Lowther Hall and his wife Eleanor Fleming, daughter of Wiliam Fleming of Rydal. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Pontefract in the Convention Parliament He was re-elected MP for Pontefract in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. He was knighted on 30 December 1661 and was dwelling at Swillington. Family Lowther married Jane Busfield daughter of William Busfield, merchant of Leeds, Yorkshire, by 1636. They had five sons and nine daughters, including * Sir William Lowther (1639–1705) *Rev. Richard Lowther, married Margaret Adams and had issue *Jane Lowther (c. 1641 – 7 April 1713), married Sir Francis Bland, 2nd Baronet *Eleanor Lowther, married Richard Harrison of Cave *Mary Lowther, married William Ellis of Kidwell *Agnes Lowther, married William Dawson *Frances Lowther, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther (1639–1705)
Sir William Lowther (18 August 1639 – 7 December 1705) was an English landowner and MP. He was the eldest son of Sir William Lowther of Swillington, near Leeds and educated at Gray's Inn and Balliol College, Oxford. He succeeded his father in 1688 and was knighted the same year. He was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1681. He was commissioner for the Aire and Calder Navigation in 1699 and elected Member of Parliament for Pontefract in 1695, sitting until 1698. He died at Little Preston Hall near Leeds in 1705 and was buried at Kippax. He had married Catherine, the daughter of Thomas Harrison of Middlesex, and had ten children: * Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet (1663–1729) *son, first apprenticed to a merchant, then joined the Army *son, first apprenticed to a merchant, then joined the Army *son, joined the Army *Richard Lowther, merchant, married successively the daughters of Sir Christopher Wandesford and Sir John Fenwick. *Christopher Lowther (d. 1718), mercha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, Of Swillington
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet (8 June 1663 – 6 March 1729) was an English landowner from Swillington, West Yorkshire, and a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain. He was the eldest son of Sir William Lowther by his wife, Catherine Harrison.Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 25 He was educated in Yorkshire at Barwick-in-Elmet School, before being admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, on 17 May 1681. Eighteen months later, on 14 December 1682, he was admitted to Gray's Inn, one of the professional bodies for English lawyers. In 1691, he married Hon. Amabella Maynard (d. 1734), daughter of Banastre Maynard, 3rd Baron Maynard, and had five children: * Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet (c. 1694 – 1763) *Henry Lowther, MD, of Newcastle (d. 1743) *John Lowther, governor of Surat, no issue and two daughters, Amabella and Jane, who both died unmarried.Burke, John; Burke, Bernard Burke (1844) A Genealogical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther (1668–1694)
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William Lowther (17 June 1668 – 28 July 1694) was an English Member of Parliament, the posthumous son of John Lowther and his second wife, Mary Withins. ReferencesLowther pedigree 2* English MPs 1690–1695 1668 births 1694 deaths William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, Of Marske
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet (4 January 1676 – 6 April 1705) was an English landowner from Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of Anthony Lowther and Margaret Penn, daughter of Sir William Penn. On 15 June 1697, he was created a baronet. He married Catherine Preston and had three children: *Sir Thomas Lowther, 2nd Baronet (1699–1745) *Catherine Lowther *Margaret Lowther References *Burke, John, and Bernard Burke. ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland.'' Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 197googlebooks.comRetrieved 3 November 2007* Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1702–1705 1676 births 1705 deaths English landowners William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet (c. 1694 – 6 March 1763) was an English landowner from Swillington, and a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain. He was the eldest son of Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet by his wife, Annabella Maynard. He was educated at schools in Wakefield and Leeds before being admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner on 28 February 1713. He succeeded his father as baronet and as Member of Parliament for Pontefract in 1729.Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 25 He was forced to sell his Pontefract burgages, from which he derived most of his influence in the constituency, in straightened financial circumstances in 1740, and left the Commons when it was dissolved the following year. He was twice married. His first wife, Diana Condon, whom he married in 1719, was the daughter of Thomas Condon. She died on 1 January 1736, and he married his second wife, Catherine Ramsden (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1727 – 15 April 1756) was an English landowner, of Marske Hall, Yorkshire and Holker Hall. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Lowther, 2nd Baronet and Lady Elizabeth Cavendish. In January 1755, he inherited the Whitehaven estates and coal mines from his fourth cousin once removed, Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, and succeeded him as Member of Parliament for Cumberland. However, he died unmarried in 1756, last of his line. He left the bulk of his estates, including the Whitehaven inheritance, to his fourth cousin, James Lowther. Holker Hall, which had come from his grandmother Catherine Preston, was left to a distant cousin of his mother Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, Lord George Cavendish. Marske Hall was bought by Thomas Dundas, later Lord Dundas, in 1762. References Lowther pedigree 1* , - Baronets in the Baronetage of England Lord-Lieutenants of Westmorland Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowther, 1st Earl Of Lonsdale
William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, KG (29 December 175719 March 1844), also known as Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Little Preston, from 1788 to 1802, and William Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lowther, from 1802 to 1807, was a British Tory politician and nobleman known for building Lowther Castle. Early life Lowther was the eldest son of Rev. Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston and Swillington, and his wife Anne Zouch. His younger brother was Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, who also married a daughter of the 9th Earl of Westmorland. His father, an ordained priest who served as rector of Swillington from 1757 to 1788, inherited the estate of Swillington in 1763, upon the death of his first cousin Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet. His father, a son of Christopher Lowther, was a grandson of Sir William Lowther. His maternal grandparents were Charles Zouch, vicar of Sandal Magna, and the former Dorothy Norton (daughter of Gervase Norton). Through his mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
