John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale ( 1655 - 1700 )

Birth: Hackthorpe Hall, Lowther, Westmoreland, England (25 April 1655) Death Place: Lowther (10 July 1700) Burial: Lowther Church Education: Kendal Grammar School; Sedbergh School; Queen's College, Oxford (matriculated 1670); Inner Temple (admitted 1671) Career: Called to the Bar (1677); MP for Westmoreland (1676-1696); Commissioner for Assessment for Cumberland, Westmoreland and the North Riding of Yorkshire (1677-1680, 1689-1690); Custos Rotulorum for Westmoreland (1678-death); rebuilt Lowther Hall and the Rectory and Church of Lowther (1685); Governor of Carlisle (1689-1690); Vice-Chamberlain of the household to William III (1689-1694); Privy Councillor (1689-death); Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmoreland (1690-1694); First Lord of the Treasury (1690); badly wounded in a duel (1691); Lord Privy Seal (1699-death) Honours: Baron Lowther of Lowther and Viscount Lonsdale (1696) Memberships: Ironmakers' Company Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/12/1699.