Family and Education
b. 30 Apr. 1602, 1st s. of William Lowther of Ingleton by Eleanor, da. of Anthony Welbury of Castle Eden, co. Dur.Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 83. educ. G. Inn 1619. GI Admiss. m. 16 June 1625 (with £200), Cumb. RO (Carlisle), D/Lons/L3/1/8/13; C6/113/80. Isabel, da. of Sir Richard Fletcher of Hutton-in-the-Forest, Cumb., 8s. (4 d.v.p.) 3da. d.v.p. Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. 83. suc. fa. 1641. C142/610/102. d. 15 Aug. 1645. P.R. Newman, Roy. Officers in Eng. and Wales, 240.
Offices Held

Freeman, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumb. 1626–d., Berwick RO, B1/8, p. 198. Appleby, Westmld. by 1628; Cumb. RO (Kendal), WSMB/A, Appleby corporation min. bk. 1, unfol. j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 1634 – 36, 1641 – c.44, Westmld. 1641-c.1644. C231/5, pp. 128, 199, 437, 477.

Col. of ft. (roy.) and gov. Pontefract Castle by 1644-July 1645. Newman, 240; N. Drake, ‘Jnl. of the 1st and 2nd Sieges of Pontefract Castle’ ed. W.H.D. Longstaffe Misc. (Surtees Soc. xxxvii), 3, 80.

Main residence: Ingleton, Yorks.
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Commons 1604-1629
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LOWTHER, Richard (1602-1645)

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