Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Ullswater
LVO PC
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
	Hereditary peerage; 27 March 1949 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 1st Viscount Ullswater
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
	Elected Hereditary Peer; 25 March 2003 – 20 July 2022
By-election	25 March 2003
Preceded by	The 13th Viscount of Oxfuird
Succeeded by	The 4th Baron Roborough
Personal details
Born	9 January 1942
Party	Conservative
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

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Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater (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.