Maj. Gen. Henry Conyngham

• ID: I48921
• Title: Maj.-Gen. 1
• Name: Henry Conyngham 1
• Sex: M
• Change Date: 19 APR 2007
• Residence: Slane, County Meath, Ireland 2
• Birth: BEF 1681
• Death: 1705/6 in St. Estevans, Spain
• Note: killed in action 2
• Event: Mil-Rank
• Note: Captain||Lord Mountjoy's Regiment 3
• Event: Office
• Note: Member of Parliament (M.P.) for County Donegal 3
• Event: Mil-Fought
• Note: War of Spanish Succession 3
• Residence: Mount Charles, County Donegal, Ireland 2

Father: Albert Conyngham Mother: Margaret Leslie

Marriage 1 Mary Williams b: BEF 1675

   Married: 09 DEC 1696 3

Children

   Has Children Mary Conyngham

   Has No Children William Conyngham b: BEF 1705

   Has No Children Henry Conyngham 1st and last Earl Conynham of Mount Charles b: 1705

Sources:

   Title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.

   Abbrev: The Complete Peerage

   Author: Editor: G.E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden

   Publication: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K., 2000

   Page: volume III, page 411

   Title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.

   Abbrev: The Complete Peerage

   Author: Editor: G.E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden

   Publication: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K., 2000

   Page: volume III, page 410

   Title: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes

   Abbrev: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition

   Author: Editor: Mosley, Charles

   Publication: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., 2003

   Page: volume 1, page 879 

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• CONYNGHAM, Henry (c.1705-81), of Minster, Kent, and Slane, co. Meath.
• b. c.1705, 2nd s. of Maj.-Gen. Henry Conyngham of Slane and Mount Charles, co. Donegal by Mary, da. and h. of Sir John Williams, 2nd Bt., of Minster, wid. of Charles Petty, 1st Baron Shelburne [I]. m. Dec. 1744, Ellen, da. and h. of Solomon Merrett of St. Olave’s, Hart St., London, merchant, s.p. suc. bro. 1738. cr. Baron Conyngham [I] 3 Oct. 1753; Visct. Conyngham [I] 20 July 1756; Earl Conyngham [I] 4 Jan. 1781.
• Offices Held
  • Cornet 4 Drag. Gds., lt. 1725; capt. R. Irish Drags. 1725.
  • M.P. [I] 1727-53; P.C. [I] 27 May 1748.
• Henry Conyngham was descended from a younger branch of the Cunninghams, earls of Glencairn, settled in Ireland since the early seventeenth century. In 1738 he succeeded his brother to the family property in Ireland worth £6,400 a year,1 and to Minster in Kent, inherited through their mother. He unsuccessfully contested Sandwich in 1741, and Great Marlow in 1744, as a government candidate, it then being said of him ‘though a fool, [he] has always been steady to the right side’.2 On 31 July 1747 Lord Hartington wrote to Henry Pelham that Conyngham claimed that
  • upon the strength of having fought the battle the last Parliament he was promised to be brought in for Sandwich upon a compromise if it could be obtained, that is effected and he not the person. Then as to Marlow, he is not to be chosen there, but that I think is in great measure his own fault ... and lastly I own ... there was a sort of promise to bring him in somewhere or other ... My acquaintance with the man was merely accidental by my father’s being lord lieutenant and I have no further partiality for him but that I think if he was in Parliament he would act steadily.3
• In the end a seat was found for him at Tiverton. The 2nd Lord Egmont, in his electoral survey of c.1749-50, noted against Marlow:
  • Conyngham, who stood there formerly upon the ministerial interest, might notwithstanding be a proper man. He has been slighted and ill-used by them and grumbles. But he must have some douceur in the military way. He is not a very wise man and is apt to be out of humour, but I believe manageable by a minister without much trouble.
• He died 3 Apr. 1781.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/co... _________________________