What is it about?
This looks at the parliamentary careers of the last six Lowther MPs, all Conservatives, asks to what extent they acted in concert, how far they conformed to the David Cannadine's portrayal ('Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy' 1990) of a deracinated landed upper class that had lost its political bearings, and how they adjusted to life after the House.
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Why is it important?
We never tire of generalising about an ill-defined political establishment; this case study helps clarify its existence (or non-existence).
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Fubn to write; it led me on to a specific study of Claude Lowther.
Mr Andrew Nicholas Connell
Appleby Grammar School
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This page is a summary of: Lowther MPs in the Era of Aristocratic Decline, 1880–1922: 'Rebellious and Rootless'?, Northern History, March 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/174587011x12928631621357.
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