Henry Burton Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham, (26 December 1766 – 28 December 1832), known as The Lord Conyngham between 1787 and 1789, as The Viscount Conyngham (2nd creation) between 1789 and 1797 and as The Earl Conyngham (2nd creation) between 1797 and 1815, was an Anglo-Irish courtier and politician of the

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period. He served as

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between 1821 and 1830.

Background

Conyngham was born in

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, the elder twin son of

Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham (born Francis Pierpoint Burton; 1725 – 22 May 1787) was an Irish peer and politician. Biography Burton was the eldest of two sons born to politician Francis Burton of County Clare by his wife, Mary ( ...

, by his wife Elizabeth Clements, daughter of

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. He was the elder twin brother of Sir Francis Conyngham and the nephew of

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Political career

Conyngham succeeded his father in the barony in May 1787, aged twenty. In May 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In December of the same year, he was created Viscount Conyngham, of Slane in the County of Meath, in the

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. He was further honoured when he was made Viscount Mount Charles, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, and Earl Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, in the Irish peerage in 1797. In August 1800, he was elected as one of the twenty-eight original

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to sit in the British House of Lords. He was made a Knight of St Patrick the following year (1801). In 1803, he was appointed

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, a post he held until 1831, and

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in 1808, which he remained until his death. In January 1816, he was created Viscount Slane, in the County of Meath, Earl of Mount Charles and Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, in the Irish peerage. In July 1821, he was created Baron Minster, of Minster Abbey in the County of Kent, in the

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. In December 1821, he was sworn of the

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and appointed

, a post he retained until 1830. From 1829 until his death in 1832 he served as

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Family

Lord Conyngham married Elizabeth Denison, daughter of the wealthy banker Joseph Denison. They had three sons and two daughters. Their eldest son,

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, predeceased his father. Their third son Lord Albert Conyngham succeeded to the vast Denison estates on the death of his maternal uncle, assumed the surname Denison and was created

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in 1850. The Marchioness Conyngham was a mistress of

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. Lord Conyngham died at Hamilton Place,

, in December 1832, aged 66, and was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son,

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. The Marchioness Conyngham died in

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, in October 1861.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Cook, C. & Stevenson, J. (1980). ''British Historical Facts 1760–1830''. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd.

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