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.
Born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, a big-game hunter and adventurer, Lowther was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society on 11 November 1901.[1] 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 (MP) for Appleby at a by-election in 1915, but the constituency was abolished in 1918.[2] On 24 February 1916 he received the Légion d'honneur, class of Commandeur,[3] and in the Birthday Honours of 1918 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.[4]
On 28 June 1920, he married Dorothy Maude Isabel Harvey.[5]
In 1921 Lowther returned to Parliament as MP for Penrith and Cockermouth succeeding his brother James, who had held the seat since 1886 and been the Speaker since 1905, became Viscount Ullswater, but lost the seat in the 1922 general election to the Liberal Levi Collison. He did not attempt to return to politics. In 1925, he co-authored The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914–1918. He died in Basingstoke, Hampshire aged 71. He had married late to a widow, Dorothy, Mrs Gordon Bois in 1920. There were no children.
References
- ↑ "Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1901–1902". The Geographical Journal 18 (6): 630. December 1901),. JSTOR 1775370.
- ↑ "Cecil Lowther". Retrieved 11 January 2007.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29486. p. 2065. 22 February 1916.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30721. p. 6514. 31 May 1918.
- ↑ "thePeerage.com". Retrieved 11 January 2007.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Cecil Lowther
- Portraits of Sir (Henry) Cecil Lowther at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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| Preceded by Lancelot Sanderson |
Member of Parliament for Appleby 1915–1918 |
Constituency abolished |
| Preceded by James William Lowther |
Member of Parliament for Penrith and Cockermouth 1921–1922 |
Succeeded by Levi Collison |
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