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unusual facts about Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet


Banastre Maynard, 3rd Baron Maynard

Annabella Maynard (d. 1734) who married Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet


Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

George Morton Pitt

Pitt resigned as governor in 1735 with a considerable fortune, purchased what later became known as Orleans House Twickenham from the estate of James Johnston who died in 1737 and bought in January 1740 burgages and freeholds from Sir William Lowther which with Lord Galway's interest gave complete control of the Pontefract seat.

John Copley

For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.

Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske

Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet (4 January 1676 – 6 April 1705) was an English landowner from Marske, Yorkshire.

Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet

She died on 1 January 1736, and he married his second wife, Catherine Ramsden (died 5 January 1778), the daughter of Sir William Ramsden, 2nd Baronet, later the same year on 17 August 1736.

He was the eldest son of Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet by his wife, Annabella Maynard.

Viscount Hanworth

Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).

William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale

Lowther was the son of Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston and Swillington, and his wife Anne Zouch.


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