 In return for his residual rights on the Lowther estates, James settled on him an annuity which, with the allowance already made by the will, gave Christopher about £200 a year.In 1710, he married Jane Nanson, daughter of Philip Nanson, rector of Newnham, Hampshire (a living in the gift of Queen's College Oxford) He spent the remainder of his life living with his father-in-law or in his house on Brook Street, Holborn, where he died in 1731.Christopher Lowther seems to have married again (prior to 1725) a Hannah Taylor (buried St. James's, Clerkenwell, London, 1752) but left no children by either marriage