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.
[2] 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.
William Lowther, who was later made a baronet and whose son was created Earl of Lonsdale in 1807.
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