Richard Lowther (ca. 1583 – April 1659) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
Lowther was the son of Sir Christopher Lowther, of Lowther, Westmorland and his wife Eleanor Musgrave, daughter of William Musgrave of Hayton Cumberland.[1] He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 14 May 1602, aged 18, and was awarded BA on 22 February 1605. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1614. He was of St. Giles, Cripplegate and was a J.P. for Middlesex.[2] He was elected MP for Appleby for the Short Parliament in April 1640.[3]
His cousin of the same name, Richard Lowther (1602-1645), was a Member of Parliament in 1626–28; he is sometimes mistakenly identified with this Richard.
Lowther founded a school in 1638 which was built at Lowther in 1640.[4]
Lowther died at the age of about 75 and was buried in Lothbury church.[2]
Referencesedit
^John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
^ ab'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Lloyd-Lytton', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 921–955. Date accessed: 5 May 2012
^Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 218.
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