Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater

The Right Honourable The Viscount Ullswater LVO PC
Official portrait, 2019
Minister of State for Housing
In office 20 July 1994 – 6 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	George Young
Succeeded by	Robert 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 Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Hesketh
Succeeded by	The Lord Strathclyde
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment
In office 24 July 1990 – 16 September 1993
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded by	The Lord Henley
Lord-in-waiting Government Whip
In office 26 July 1989 – 22 July 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Henley
Succeeded by	The Lord Reay
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 24 July 1963 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 1st Viscount Ullswater
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer 28 March 2003 – 20 July 2022[1]
By-election	28 March 2003
Preceded by	The 13th Viscount of Oxfuird
Succeeded by	The 4th Baron Roborough
Personal details
Born	(1942-01-09) 9 January 1942 (age 82)
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Trinity 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.