Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Ullswater LVO PC |
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Chief Whip in the House of Lords Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms |
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In office 16 September 1993 – 20 July 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | The Lord Hesketh |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Strathclyde |
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Assumed office 2003 as an excepted hereditary peer |
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| Preceded by | The Viscount of Oxfuird |
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In office 9 January 1963 – 11 November 1999 as a hereditary peer |
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| Preceded by | James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater |
| Succeeded by | House of Lords Act 1999 |
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| Born | 9 January 1942 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater LVO PC (born 9 January 1942), succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949, sitting in the House of Lords as a Conservative. He is one of very few peers to have succeeded a great-grandfather in a title.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lord Ullswater was made a Lord-in-Waiting (whip) in January 1989 by Margaret Thatcher before becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Employment in July 1990. He was retained by John Major in that role until 1993, when he became Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords). He remained in this role for a year when he became Minister of State for the Environment in 1994 (as well as a Privy Counsellor) in 1994, but he left the Government in a 1995 reshuffle.
In 1998, he became the Private Secretary to Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and continued in this office until her death in 2002. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the special Honours List issued by the Queen after Princess Margaret's demise.
As a member of a Royal Household he could not take part in partisan politics and did not seek to remain in the House of Lords when the House of Lords Act 1999 was passed. But after the death of the Viscount of Oxfuird in January 2003, he won the all-house by-election, enabling him to return to the House of Lords.
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