Career
From 1872 until his accession in 1876, he was styled Viscount Lowther. They had one daughter:
Lady (Gladys Mary) Juliet Lowther (9 April 1881 – 23 September 1965), married Sir Robert Duff, 2nd Baronet (d 1914) on 9 June 1903. Married secondly Keith Trevor on 12 June 1919, divorced 1926.
He suffered from illness, possibly exacerbated by alcoholism, and died relatively young in 1882.