Cecil Lowther

Major-General Sir (Henry) Cecil Lowther, KCMG, CB, CVO, DSO, FRGS was a British general and Conservative politician, the fourth son of William Lowther.A big-game hunter and adventurer, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society on 11 November 1901. In 1912, he published From Pillar to Post, an account of his travels.In October 1913, on the eve of World War I, he commanded 1st Battalion Scots Guards until being wounded in November 1914. He then commanded 1st Brigade, which was broken up in August 1915, and afterwards became Military Secretary at General Headquarters France. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Appleby in 1915, but the constituency was abolished in 1918. On 24 February 1916, he received the Légion d'honneur, class of Commandeur.On 28 June 1920, he married Dorothy Maude Isabel Harvey.In 1921 Lowther returned to Parliament as MP for Penrith and Cockermouth after his brother James, who had held the seat since 1886, became Viscount Ullswater, but lost the seat in the General Election of 1922 to the Liberal Levi Collison. In 1925, he co-authored The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918. In the 1931 General Election he stood for Workington, but, even in a landslide year for the Conservatives, could not dislodge the sitting Labour MP.