St George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale
St George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (4 October 1855 – 8 February 1882) was a British nobleman, the eldest son of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale and Emily Caulfeild. From 1872 until his succession to the earldom in 1876, he was styled Viscount Lowther.[1]
Life
[edit]His racehorse Pilgrimage won both the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand Guineas in 1878.[2] He was a captain in the part-time Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, and was honorary colonel of the Royal Cumberland Militia.[3] He suffered from illness, possibly exacerbated by alcoholism, and died relatively young in 1882. He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Hugh.[1][2]
Marriage and issue
[edit]He married the Honourable Constance Gwladys Herbert, third daughter of the Victorian statesman Lord Herbert of Lea and sister of two earls of Pembroke, on 6 July 1878. They had one daughter:[1][4]
- Lady (Gladys Mary) Juliet Lowther (9 April 1881 – 23 September 1965), married Sir Robert Duff, 2nd Baronet (d. 16 October 1914) on 9 June 1903; married secondly Keith Trevor on 12 June 1919, divorced 1926. She had issue, one son Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet of Vaynol, and a daughter Victoria (who had issue), by her first marriage.[5]
His widow married secondly, on 7 May 1885, Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon and died on 27 October 1917.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
- ^ a b "Lowther Castle Conservation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2007.
- ^ Army List.
- ^ "thePeerage.com". Retrieved 12 January 2007.
- ^ Lady Juliet Lowther's issue is listed further down on this page. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
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