Cecil Lowther

Cecil Lowther

Major-General Sir (Henry) Cecil Lowther, KCMG, CB, CVO, DSO, FRGS (1 January 1869 – 1 November 1940) was a British general and Conservative politician, the fourth son of William Lowther.

A big-game hunter and adventurer, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society on 11 November 1901. [cite journal | title=Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1901-1902 | journal=The Geographical Journal | volume=18 | number=6 | month=December | year=1901), | pages=630 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398%28190112%2918%3A6%3C630%3AMOTRGS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L | accessdate=2007-01-11 | issue=6] In 1912, he published "From Pillar to Post", an account of his travels.

In October 1913, on the eve of World War I, he commanded 1st Battalion Scots Guards until being wounded in November 1914. He then commanded 1st (Guards) Brigade, which was broken up in August 1915, and afterwards became Military Secretary at General Headquarters France. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Appleby in 1915, but the constituency was abolished in 1918. [cite web | url=http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/nicknames/lowther.htm | title=Cecil Lowther | accessdate=2007-01-11] On 24 February 1916, he received the Légion d'honneur, class of "Commandeur". [London Gazette, 24 February 1916]

On 28 June 1920, he married Dorothy Maude Isabel Harvey. [cite web | url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1219.htm#i12189 | title=thePeerage.com | accessdate=2007-01-11]

In 1921 Lowther returned to Parliament as MP for Penrith and Cockermouth after his brother James, who had held the seat since 1886, became Viscount Ullswater, but lost the seat in the General Election of 1922 to the Liberal Levi Collison. In 1925, he co-authored "The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918". In the 1931 General Election he stood for Workington, but, even in a landslide year for the Conservatives, could not dislodge the sitting Labour MP.

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