Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (27 March 1818 – 15 August 1876) was a British

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 nobleman and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician, the eldest son of Henry Cecil Lowther and Lady Lucy Sherard.

He married Emily Susan Caulfeild on 31 July 1852. They had six children:

• Lady Sibyl Emily Lowther (d. 11 June 1932), married Major General John George Williams Knox on 30 April 1886
• St George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (1855–1882)
• Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857–1944)
• Hon. Charles Edwin Lowther (11 July 1859 – 2 April 1888), married Kate Fink on 12 June 1878
• Lady Verena Maud Lowther (6 April 1865 – 25 December 1938), married Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill
  Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill
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   on 1 January 1887, divorced 1927
• Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867–1953)

In 1868, he succeeded his uncle William

William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale

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 in his Lord Lieutenancies, and in 1872 as Earl of Lonsdale

Earl of Lonsdale

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In 1870, he became Master of the Cottesmore Hunt

Cottesmore Hunt

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