Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet (1727 – 15 April 1756) was an English landowner, of Marske Hall,

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Holker Hall Holker Hall (pronounced Hooker by some) is a privately owned country house located about 2 km to the southwest of the village of Cartmel in the ceremonial county of Cumbria and historic county of Lancashire, England. It is "the grandest ...

. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Lowther, 2nd Baronet and Lady Elizabeth Cavendish. In January 1755, he inherited the

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estates and coal mines from his fourth cousin once removed,

Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, FRS (1673 – 2 January 1755) was an English landowner, industrialist and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 54 years between 1694 and 1755. His ownership and development of coal mines around W ...

, and succeeded him as Member of Parliament for

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. However, he died unmarried in 1756, last of his line. He left the bulk of his estates, including the Whitehaven inheritance, to his fourth cousin, James Lowther. Holker Hall, which had come from his grandmother Catherine Preston, was left to a distant cousin of his mother Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, Lord George Cavendish. Marske Hall was bought by Thomas Dundas, later Lord Dundas, in 1762.

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* , - Baronets in the Baronetage of England Lord-lieutenants of Westmorland Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies 1727 births 1756 deaths English landowners

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