About John Lowther
Lived 1620 – 1668 (aged 47–48). John Lowther was an English politician.
Colonel Sir John Lowther (c. 1628 – March 1668) was an English landowner, at Hackthorpe, the eldest son and heir of Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet and Mary Fletcher.
He first married, in 1665, Elizabeth Bellingham, daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, 1st Baronet. They had two children: John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale (1655–1700) Mary Lowther, married her third cousin twice removed, John Lowther of Dantzic
By his second marriage to Mary Withins, he had one (posthumous) son: William Lowther (1668–1694)
He predeceased his father and did not succeed to the baronetcy.
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Who was John Lowther?
English landowner, died 1668
When was John Lowther born?
John Lowther was born in 1620.
When did John Lowther die?
John Lowther died in 1668.
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John Lowther was a politician.
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John Lowther was English.
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