Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater

Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater

Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater , LVO , PC (* 9. January 1942 ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party and Peer . Since 1963 he is a member of the House of Lords and is one of the 90 due to the since 2003 House of Lords Act 1999 elected hereditary peers ( Hereditary peer ).

Life

Family origin and Viscount Ullswater

Nicholas Lowther belongs to the politically influential Lowther family. His great, great, great, grandfather, William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757-1844) was an intermittent member of the House of Commons between 1780 and 1802 . His great, great, great grandfather Henry Lowther (1790-1867) represented the constituency of Westmoreland in the House of Commons between 1812 and 1867 and was most recently the senior member of the House of Commons as "Father of the House". His great-great-grandfather William Lowther (1821-1912) was first a diplomat and then between 1868 and 1892 also a member of the lower house for the constituency of Westmoreland .

Nicholas Lowthers great-grandfather James Lowther (1855-1949) was between 1883 and 1921 with short interruptions a member of the House of Commons and from 1905 to 1921 Speaker of the House of Commons . After he left the House of Commons, he was raised to Viscount Ullswater in 1921 . His son, Nicholas Lowthers grandfather, was Christopher Lowther (1887-1935) was also a member of the lower house between 1918 and 1922.

Nicholas Lowthers father, Lieutenant John Arthur Lowther (1910-1942), was the private secretary of George, 1st Duke of Kent and died with this on August 25, 1942 just a few months after the birth of Nicholas Lowther.

The deaths of his grandfather and father before the death of the first title holder resulted in Nicholas Lowther becoming heir to the title Viscount Ullswater after the death of his great-grandfather James Lowther in 1949 at the age of just seven .

House of Lords

However, due to the age of majority at the time of 21 years, he was only able to accept the associated seat in the House of Lords in 1963 and has been a member of it ever since.

Lowther, who from 1971 to 1988 as a Justice of the Peace ( Justice of Peace served), was during his membership in the upper house, first between 1989 and 1990 Parliamentary Secretary of the conservative government faction ( Government Whip ).

In the government of Prime Minister John Major , Viscount Ullswater became Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Employment in 1990 and was subsequently Chief Government Whip in the House of Lords between 1993 and 1994 , before being Minister of State for Construction and Planning in the Ministry of the Environment from 1994 to 1995 . Between 1993 and 1994 he also held the honorary title of Captain of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms .

On April 1, 2003, he was, according to the House of Lords Act 1999 as one of the 90 so-called hereditary peers ( Hereditary peer selected). Viscount Ullswater, who was also a member of the Council of Borough King’s Lynn and West Norfolk between 2003 and 2011 , has been Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and Deputy Chair of Committees since 2004 . On July 4, 2006 he ran for the function of Speaker of the House of Lords ( Lord Speaker ), but was defeated by the Labor Party candidate , Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman . In addition to his political offices, he is also a director of the family business Lowther Trustees Limited .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on July 8, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 8, 2012)

predecessor	Office	successor
James Lowther	Viscount Ullswater since 1949	current owner of the title