St George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (4 October 1855 – 8 February 1882) was a British

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 nobleman, the eldest 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:...

 and Emily Caulfeild. From 1872 until his accession in 1876, he was styled Viscount Lowther.

He married the Hon. Constance Gwladys Herbert, third daughter of the Victorian statesman Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea

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 and sister of two earls of Pembroke & Montgomery

Earl of Pembroke

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, on 6 July 1878. They had one daughter:

• Lady (Gladys Mary) Juliet Lowther (9 April 1881 – 23 September 1965), married Sir Robert Duff, 2nd Baronet
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   (d. 1914) on 9 June 1903; married secondly Keith Trevor on 12 June 1919, divorced 1926. She had issue, one son Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet of Vaynol
  Vaynol
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  , and a daughter Victoria (who had issue), by her first marriage.

His racehorse Pilgrimage won both the One Thousand Guineas

One Thousand Guineas

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 and the Two Thousand Guineas

Two Thousand Guineas

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 in 1878. He suffered from illness, possibly exacerbated from alcoholism

Alcoholism

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, and died relatively young in 1882. He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Hugh

Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale

Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, KG, GCVO was an English nobleman.-Biography:The second son of the 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, he succeeded his brother, the 4th Earl, in 1882. Lord Lonsdale was an avid sportsman and bon vivant and was known by some as "England's greatest sporting gentleman"...

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