Talk:Richard Lowther (died 1659)

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This seems to be a confusion of two men. Alumni Oxoniensis (1891) has:

of Westmorland, gent. Queen's Coll., matric. 14 May, 1602, aged 18, B.A. 22 Feb., 1604-5, then "eq. fil."; of St. Giles, Cripplegate; bar.-at-law, Gray's Inn, 1614 (as son of Sir Christopher, of Lowther, kt.), a justice of the peace for Middlesex, M.P. Berwick-upon-Tweed 1626, Appleby April-May, 1640; died in April, 1659; buried in Lothbury church; brother of Christopher 1606. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.

However, the History of Parliament (a 2010 volume, so recent research) identifies the 1626 MP as Richard Lowther (1602-1645), son of William Lowther of Ingleton; he did enter Gray's Inn (in 1619) but did not attend Oxford. They were probably cousins. I'll remove the details here; JP for Middlesex is probably correct, though, and I'm assuming Appleby 1640 is as well. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:17, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]