John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale [SEP] date of death
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, PC, (25 April 165510 July 1700), known as Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, from 1675 to 1696, was an English politician.
He was born at Hackthorpe Hall, Lowther, Westmorland, the son of Colonel John Lowther of Lowther and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, Bart, of Hilsington, Westmoreland. He was educated at Kendal Grammar School and Sedbergh School before admission to Queen's College, Oxford
was Lord Privy Seal from March 1699 until his death. He was badly injured in a duel in 1691.
On 3 December 1674, he married Lady Katherine Thynne (d. bef. 1713), daughter of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet. They had children:
- Richard Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lonsdale (died 1713)
- Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale (died 1751)
- Hon. Mary Lowther (c. 167616 April 1706), married in February 1692 Sir John Wentworth, 1st Bt