Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale

Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, OBE

Order of the British Empire

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Deputy Lieutenant

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(25 June 1867 – 11 March 1953) was an English peer, the youngest son of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale

Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale

Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale was a British nobleman and Conservative 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:...

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Lowther was educated at Malvern College

Malvern College

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and Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College, Cambridge

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. On 13 October 1886 Lowther was made lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, The Border Regiment (The Royal Cumberland Militia).

On 24 April 1889, he married Gwendoline Sheffield (d. 1921), daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet

Sheffield Baronets

The Sheffield Baronetcy, of Normanby in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 1 March 1755 for Charles Herbert Sheffield, the illegitimate son of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby....

, by whom he had three children:

Lady Barbara Lowther (8 April 1890–1979), married Col.