Major Christopher William Lowther (18 January 1887 – 7 January 1935) was a British

Great Britain

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 Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician, the eldest son of James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater

James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater

James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, GCB, PC, JP, DL was a British Conservative politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921.-Background and education:The son of Hon...

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Lowther was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He was commissioned into the Duke of Yorks Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars

Duke of Yorks Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars

-History:The Duke of Yorks Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars was a unit of the British Army from 1794–1961.The regiment was formed as volunteer cavalry in 1794, during the French Revolutionary Wars. The Suffolk Yeomanry was raised in as the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, they fought in the Boer war as part...

 in 1909. He later transferred to the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry

Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry

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, serving in the First World War. He served as an Assistant Provost Marshal

Provost Marshal

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 from 1917 to 1919 and reached the rank of Major

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He married Ina Marjorie Gwendolin Pelly on 17 June 1910, by whom he had one son:

• Lt. John Arthur Lowther (1910–1942)

He and Ina were divorced in 1921, and he married Dorothy Bromley-Davenport on 16 February 1921, by whom he had three daughters:

• Hon. Rosemary Lowther (b. 25 February 1922), married Lt. Douglas Goolden (1933–2001)
• Christine Lowther (16 January 1927 – 4 August 1927)
• Hon. Jennifer Lowther (b. 11 June 1932), married James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale
  James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale
  James Hugh William Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale was the elder son of Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther, and Muriel Frances Farrar, the daughter of Sir George Herbert Farrar Bt of Chicheley Hall, Bucks., a South African Randlord.Educated at Eton College he went up to Cambridge University in...
  
   on 9 September 1954, divorced 1962, later married William Edward Clayfield, Oswald Dickin Carter and James Cornelius Sullivan

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