St George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale

Who was St George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale?

St George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale was a British nobleman, the eldest son of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale and Emily Caulfeild. From 1872 until his accession in 1876, he was styled Viscount Lowther.

He married the Honourable Constance Gwladys Herbert, third daughter of the Victorian statesman Lord Herbert of Lea and sister of two earls of Pembroke, on 6 July 1878. They had one daughter:

⁕Lady Juliet Lowther, married Sir Robert Duff, 2nd Baronet on 9 June 1903; married secondly Keith Trevor on 12 June 1919, divorced 1926. She had issue, one son Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet of Vaynol, and a daughter Victoria, by her first marriage.

His racehorse Pilgrimage won both the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand Guineas in 1878. He suffered from illness, possibly exacerbated from alcoholism, and died relatively young in 1882. He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Hugh.