James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 27 years from 1757 to 1784, when he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Earl o
James Lowther, 1st Earl Lonsdale (Thomas Hudson)
Lowther Castle in the early 18th century
William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, KG, 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 Bri
James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
…Paddington cemetery. He was created Earl of Lonsdale on 24 May 1784 and Viscount Lowther on 26 October 1797, with special remainder to his third cousin Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Little Preston. On 9 June 1792 he fought a duel with a Captain Cuthbert of the Guards, when the latter refused to let the former's carriage pass…
Portrait of The Earl of Lonsdale, 1806, by Samuel William Reynolds (after John Opie)
Lowther Castle
Portrait of Lord Lonsdale, by Jacob Thompson
Drawing of his wife, Augusta, Countess of Lonsdale, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1837