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Robert Lowther (colonial administrator)

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Robert Lowther (13 December 1681 – September 1745) was an English landowner, holding the estate of Maulds Meaburn, and colonial governor. He was the eldest son of Richard Lowther and Barbara Prickett. He owned the Christchurch Plantation, a slave plantation in Barbados.[1]

From 1711 to 1714 and 1715 to 1720, he served as Governor of Barbados. The Privy Council met in Whitehall to hear several complaints against Lowther on 4, 5, 12, 18 and 25 October 1720. At their meeting on the 25th the Council ordered a warrant to be issued for Lowther's arrest for 'Crimes and Misdemeanours Committed by him in the said Island, which were fully proved before Their Excellencies in the council, and several other Complaints having been made to this Board against him, Their Excellencies Judged it incumbent on them to take care that Crimes so Heinous should not Escape the punishment due to them by Law'.[2]

On 22 June 1731, he married his cousin Katherine Pennington, daughter of Sir Joseph Pennington, 2nd Baronet. They had five children:

References

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  1. ^ "The Abominable Traffic: Cumbria's connections to the history and legacy of slavery" (PDF). Cumbria.gov.uk.
  2. ^ Barbados. Privy Council Register, Volume 3, 1720 (Reference: PC 2/97). pp.22-24.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Westmorland
1705–1707
With: Henry Graham
Succeeded by
Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Parliament of England
Member of Parliament for Westmorland
1705–1708
With: Michael Fleming 1707–1708
Succeeded by
Military offices
Preceded by Storekeeper of the Ordnance
1708–1710
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Barbados
1711–1714
Succeeded by
Preceded by
governor
acting
Governor of Barbados
1715–1720
Succeeded by