Earl of Lonsdale
Earldom of Lonsdale 2nd Creation | |
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Creation date | 7 April 1807 |
Creation | Second |
Created by | King George III |
Peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom |
First holder | William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale |
Present holder | William James Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale |
Subsidiary titles | Viscount Lowther Baron Lowther Baronet 'of Swillington'[1] |
Status | Extant |
Motto | MAGISTRATUS INDICAT VIRUM (The office displays the man) |
Earl of Lonsdale is a title that has been created twice in British history, firstly in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1784 (becoming extinct in 1802), and then in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1807, both times for members of the Lowther family.
This family descends from
First creation
His great-grandson,
The late Viscount was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second cousin, James Lowther, the fifth Baronet. He was the son of
He was succeeded in the barony and viscountcy of 1797 according to the special remainder by his third cousin once removed,
Second creation
In 1807 the earldom of Lonsdale was revived when he was created Earl of Lonsdale, in the County of Westmorland, in the
Numerous other members of this family have also gained distinction.
The family seat was formerly Lowther Castle in Cumbria. However, the seventh Earl lived at nearby Askham Hall and the present Earl lives at Thrimby a few miles south-east of the castle. The traditional burial place of the Earls of Lonsdale is the Lowther Mausoleum in the Churchyard of St Michael, Lowther, Cumbria.[5]
Lowther Baronets, of Lowther (c. 1638)
- Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet (1605–1675)
- John Lowther (1628–1668)
- Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet (1655–1700) (created Viscount Lonsdale in 1696)
Viscounts Lonsdale (1696)
- John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, 2nd Baronet (1655–1700)
- Richard Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lonsdale, 3rd Baronet (1692–1713)
- Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, 4th Baronet (1694–1751)
Lowther Baronets, of Lowther (c. 1638; Reverted)
- Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet (1736–1802) (created Earl of Lonsdale in 1784 and Viscount Lowther in 1797)
Earls of Lonsdale; First creation (1784)
- James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1736–1802)
Viscounts Lowther (1797)
- James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, 1st Viscount Lowther (1736–1802)
- William Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lowther (1757–1844) (created Earl of Lonsdale in 1807)
Earls of Lonsdale; Second creation (1807)
- William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844)
- William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787–1872)
- Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (1818–1876)
- St George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (1855–1882)
- Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857–1944)
- Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867–1953)
- Anthony Edward Lowther, Viscount Lowther (1896–1949)
- James Hugh William Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale (1922–2006)
- Hugh Clayton Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale (1949–2021)
- William James Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale (b. 1957)
Present Earl
William Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale (born 9 July 1957) is the younger son of the 7th Earl by his second wife Jennifer Lowther, a cousin. In 1999 he married Angela Ann Tinker, a daughter of Arthur Tinker. On 22 June 2021, he succeeded to the peerages and baronetcy and to an estate of some 30,000 acres.[6]
The heir presumptive is the present holder's half-brother, James Nicholas Lowther (born 1964),[6] whose heir apparent is his second son, Flynn St George Lowther (b. 2005), due to the suicide of his older son in 2022.[7]03/27/2024 Eric Lowther 10th Earl heir for completion house of Lords...
Line of succession
- William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844)
- William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787–1872)
- Henry Lowther (1790–1867)
- Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (1818–1876)
- St George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (1855–1882)
- Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857–1944)
- Charles Lowther (1859–1888)
- Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867–1953)
- Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther (1896–1949)
- James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale (1922–2006)
- Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale (1949–2021)
- William Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale (b. 1957)
- (1) James Lowther (b. 1964)
- James Lowther (2000-2022)
- (2) Flynn Lowther (b. 2005)
- (3) Charles Lowther (b. 1978)
- Anthony Lowther (1925–1981)
- (4) Thomas Lowther (b. 1966)
- (5) Anson Lowther (b. 1998)
- (4) Thomas Lowther (b. 1966)
- James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale (1922–2006)
- Timothy Lancelot Lowther (1925–1984)
- Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther (1896–1949)
- Arthur Lowther (1820–1855)
- William Lowther (1823–1912)
- James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (1855–1949)
- Christopher Lowther (1887–1935)
- John Lowther (1910–1942)
- (6) Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater (b. 1942)
- (7) Benjamin Lowther (b. 1975)
- (8) Nikolas Lowther (b. 2009)
- (9) Edward Lowther (b. 1981)
- (7) Benjamin Lowther (b. 1975)
- (6) Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater (b. 1942)
- John Lowther (1910–1942)
- Arthur Lowther (1888–1967)
- Christopher Lowther (1887–1935)
- Sir Gerard Lowther of Belgrave Square, 1st Baronet (1858–1916)
- Harold Lowther (1864–1929)
- Sir Cecil Lowther (1869–1940)
- James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (1855–1949)
- Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (1818–1876)
See also
- Viscount Ullswater
- Lowther Baronets
- Lonsdale Road, Oxford, named after the Earldom
References
- ^ "Official Roll of the Baronetage". The Standing Council of the Baronetage. 29 February 2016. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "No. 12541". The London Gazette. 11 May 1784. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 14052". The London Gazette. 7 October 1797. p. 968.
- ^ "No. 16016". The London Gazette. 4 April 1807. p. 421.
- ^ "Lowther Mausoleum". Archived from the original on 16 June 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, volume 2, 2003, p. 2396
- ^ Tributes after Lowther Castle heir dies aged 21, cumbriacrack.com, accessed 20 January 2023
Sources
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 987.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets