Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater

The Viscount Ullswater
Official portrait, 2019
Minister of State for Housing
In office
20 July 1994 – 6 July 1995
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byGeorge Young
Succeeded byRobert Jones
Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
In office
16 September 1993 – 20 July 1994
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byThe Lord Hesketh
Succeeded byThe Lord Strathclyde
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment
In office
24 July 1990 – 16 September 1993
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
John Major
Preceded byThe Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded byThe Lord Henley
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
26 July 1989 – 22 July 1990
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byThe Lord Henley
Succeeded byThe Lord Reay
Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
24 July 1963 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 1st Viscount Ullswater
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
28 March 2003 – 20 July 2022[1]
By-election28 March 2003
Preceded byThe 13th Viscount of Oxfuird
Succeeded byThe 4th Baron Roborough
Personal details
Born (1942-01-09) 9 January 1942 (age 82)
Political partyConservative
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater LVO, PC (born 9 January 1942), is a British hereditary peer and former member of the House of Lords who sat as a Conservative. He succeeded his great-grandfather in the viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949, being one of very few peers to have succeeded a great-grandfather in a title.

He served as a whip and a minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1989 and 1995 culminating in serving as the Minister of State for Housing from 1994 to 1995.

  1. ^ Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.