Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Whitehaven

Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Whitehaven

Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet (9 November 164217 January 1706) was an English gentleman and landowner at Whitehaven.

He married Jane Leigh and had three children: [cite web | url=http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ll/lowther2.htm | title=Lowther pedigree 2 | accessdate=2007-01-02]
*Sir Christopher Lowther, 3rd Baronet (c.1666–1731)
*Jane Lowther (1667 – 27 February 1730) [cite journal | first=J.V. | last=Beckett | title=The Disinheritance of Sir Christopher Lowther in 1701 | volume=80 | year=1980 | journal=Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society | pages=131–136] , unmarried
*Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet (1673–1755)

Lowther owned large coal estates near Whitehaven, and worked to develop the mines and the port. He oversaw the growth of Whitehaven from a small fishing village to a planned town for the colliery workers. He disinherited his elder son, Christopher, as a spendthrift, and left his estates to his younger son, James.cite book | first=J. V. | last=Beckett | chapter=Lowther, Sir James, fourth baronet (bap. 1673, d. 1755) | title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2004 | chapterurl=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37692 | accessdate=2006-12-21]

He served as Member of Parliament for Cumberland from 1665 to 1701, and a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty from 1689 to 1696.

External links

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Further reading

*cite book | title=The Correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven 1693-1698. A provincial community in wartime. | editor=D.R. Hainsworth, ed. | publisher=The British Academy | place=London | year=1983 | isbn=0-197-26016-0

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