James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, GCB, PC, JP, DL (1 April 1855 – 27 March 1949), was a British Conservative politician. He was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921. He was the longest-serving Speaker of the 20th century.
Lowther represented Great Britain at the International Conference at Venice in 1892, and at the International Conference on Emigration at Rome in 1924. He was Chairman of the Speakers' Electoral Reform Conference in 1916–1917, of the Buckingham Palace Conference (on the partition of Ulster) in 1914, of the Boundary Commissions (Great Britain and Ireland) in 1917, of the Royal Commission on Proportional Representation in 1918, Devolution Conference in 1919, of the Royal Commission on London Government, 1921–1922; of Review Committee Political Honours, 1923–1924, and Statutory Commission on Cambridge University, 1923; of the Agricultural Wages Board from 1930 to 1940; of the Lords and Commons Committee on Electoral Reform, 1929–1930; and of BBC Enquiry Committee, 1935. He was a Trustee of the British Museum from 1922 to 1931 and a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1925. In 1907 his portrait was painted by Philip de László.
Coat of arms of James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
Crest
A dragon passant Argent.
Escutcheon
Or six annulets three two and one and in chief a crescent for difference all Sable.
Supporters
On either side a horse Argent gorged with a wreath of laurel Vert and charged on the shoulder with a portcullis chained Or.
Motto
Magistratum Indicat Virum (The Office Shows The Man)[4]
Family
On 1 March 1886, Lowther married Mary Frances Beresford-Hope (d. 16 May 1944). They had three children:[citation needed]
Major Christopher William Lowther (b. 18 January 1887, d. 7 January 1935), the father of Lt. John Arthur Lowther and grandfather of Nicholas Lowther, the 2nd Viscount Ullswater.
Arthur James Beresford Lowther (b. 28 October 1888, d. 2 March 1967)
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