Conyers Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Meinhill, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 4th Baron Conyers (August 1570 – 3 March 1653) was an English

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and father of the 1st Earl of Holderness.

Personal life

Conyers Darcy was the son of Thomas Darcy and Elizabeth Conyers and grandson of

John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers (c. 1524 – 13 June 1557) was an English peer and military administrator. Biography Conyers was born the son of Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baron Conyers circa 1524. He was knighted in 1544. In 1551 he was made W ...

. He was educated at

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. He inherited

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and married Dorothy Belasyse, daughter of

Sir Henry Belasyse, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Belasyse, 1st Baronet (1555–1624) was an English politician. Origins He was the son of Sir William Bellasis (d.1604) of Newburgh Priory in Yorkshire. Career He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He succeeded his father in ...

and his wife Ursula. They had six sons and seven daughters. The eldest son to outlive his father was

Conyers Darcy Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, ( 16851 December 1758), of Aske, near Richmond, Yorkshire, was a British Army officer, courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1758. Early life Darcy was the second surviving ...

; later The Hon. Conyers Darcy. At the time of the

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, Darcy was

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of the Richmondshire Trained Band.Major Robert Bell Turton, ''The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)'', Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X, p. 18.

Titles

Darcy became 1st Baron Darcy of Meinhill in 1641, with his wife thus becoming Lady Darcy and his son The Hon. Conyers Darcy. At this time, the monarch also terminated the abeyance of the title Baron Darcy de Knayth which had been in force since the 6th Baron's death in 1418; and the title Baron Conyers which had been in abeyance since the 3rd Baron's death in 1557.

References

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