William Lowther (1639-1705)

William Lowther (1639-1705)

Sir William Lowther (18 August 16397 December 1705) was an English landowner dwelling at Swillington, the eldest son of Sir William Lowther.

He married Catherine Harrison and had ten children: [cite web | url=http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ll/lowther2.htm | title=Lowther pedigree 2 | accessdate=2007-01-14] cite journal | first=D.R. | last=Hainsworth | volume=88 | year=1988 | title=The Lowther Younger Sons | journal=Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society | pages=149–160]
*Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet (1663–1729)
*son, first apprenticed to a merchant, then joined the Army
*son, first apprenticed to a merchant, then joined the Army
*son, joined the Army
*Richard Lowther, merchant, married successively the daughters of Sir Christopher Wandesford and Sir John Fenwick
*Christopher Lowther (d. 1718), merchant, of Little Preston, married Elizabeth Maude and had issue
*Gerard Lowther, lawyer, d.v.p. age 23
*Catherine Lowther, married Henry Slingsby
*Mary Lowther, married John Stanhope

He had a falling-out with his eldest son, William, over his marriage to the daughter of Lord Maynard, because of the reduction in the estates that would be entailed by her jointure.

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