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Named after the extensive northern estates – now part of Cumbria – owned by the Lowther family, who were also major landowners around Barnes. The area was originally part of the St Anns estate bought by William Lowther MP, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, in 1846; who inherited a considerable amount of land including Lowther Castle and other properties in Suffolk on the death of his uncle. When he himself died in 1872 he passed it on to his second son Sir Gerard Lowther, a career diplomat. The road itself was built in 1906.
