Background
Lowther was born at Whitehaven, Street Bees, Cumberland, the son of Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Frances Lancaster, daughter of Christopher Lancaster of Stockbridge, Westmoreland.
Lowther was born at Whitehaven, Street Bees, Cumberland, the son of Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Frances Lancaster, daughter of Christopher Lancaster of Stockbridge, Westmoreland.
He was educated at Ilkley, Yorkshire and Balliol College, Oxford (matriculated 1657).
Lowther owned large coal estates near Whitehaven, and worked to develop the mines and the port. He oversaw the growth of Whitehaven from a small fishing village to a planned town for the colliery workers. Lowther died at Whitehaven and was buried at Street Bees.
Lowther married Jane Leigh, daughter of Woolley and Elizabeth Leigh of Addington, Surrey and had three children:
Sir Christopher Lowther, 3rd Baronet (c1666–1731)
Jane Lowther (1667 – 27 February 1730), unmarried
Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet (1673–1755).
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He served as Member of Parliament for Cumberland from 1665 to 1701, and a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty from 1689 to 1696.