Education
Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He was appointed a Page of Honour on 7 April 1908 and served in that office until 25 March 1913. Educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales"s Own) on 11 August 1915. On 1 February 1922, Lowther married Muriel Frances Farrar, daughter of Sir George Herbert Farrar, 1st Baronet, of Chicheley Hall Buckinghamshire., by whom he had three children:
Sir James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale (1922–2006)
Anthony George Lowther (b 23 September 1925), married Lavinia Joyce, of San Francisco, and has issue
Ann Mary Lowther (30 August 1927 – 23 August 1956), married Colonel Julian Fane Medical Corps (1921-2013).
Lowther returned to the family estates after the war, dwelling in Clifton Hall, Westmorland.
Like many of his family, he was influential in local affairs, serving as High Sheriff of Westmorland in 1930, and being appointed honorary colonel of the 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment on 19 December 1931. He moved from Clifton Hall to Askham Hall in 1933.
This building, bought by the Lowthers in 1815, was carefully restored and modernized under his direction. However, he predeceased his father in 1949, at the age of 53.