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2 days ago · The legendary 5th ‘Yellow’ Earl, Hugh Lonsdale, lived at Lowther for 50 years; he was a big spender, on horses, cars and other extravagances but not on his ancestral home. Eventually the money ran out and he had to move to a smaller home, quite a comedown for a man who was well known internationally and a proper celebrity in his day.
5 days ago · William Viscount Lowther was in 1807 created Earl of Lonsdale. The Castle (fn. n2), his Lordship's seat at Whitehaven, where he occasionally resides, is a large quadrangular building, the greater part of which was erected by the late Earl on the site of a former mansion.
5 days ago · In 1684 it was purchased of Henry Duke of Norfolk by the ancestor of the Earl of Lonsdale, who is the present proprietor. The barony of Gilsland (fn. n5) was given by Earl Ranulph to his relation Hubert de Vallibus or Vaux.
3 days ago · The neglected Spa at Shap Wells was made beneficial to the public again by the earl of Lonsdale who ordered a new Inn to be erected close to the old well. The waters are supposed to be similar to those at Leamington and efficacious in cases of rheumatism and gout.
5 days ago · house of Plantagenet, royal house of England, which reigned from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · William III, stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1672–1702) and king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689–1702), reigning jointly with Queen Mary II (until her death in 1694). He directed the European opposition to Louis XIV and, in Britain, secured the triumph of Protestantism.
3 days ago · He also recalled affectionate memories of Essex’s father, the first Earl, with whom he had campaigned years before when still a loyal (if self-serving) subject of the crown.
