Henry Joseph Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles (6 April 1795 – 26 December 1824), was an

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Tory politician. He was heir to the

Marquessate of Conyngham Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. The title was created in 1816 for Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham. He was the great-nephew of another Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham, a member of a fa ...

but died before his father. Conyngham was the eldest son of

Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham 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 between 1789 and 1797 and as The Earl Conyngham between 1797 and 1815, was an ...

, and his wife, the banking heiress Elizabeth Denison. He was educated in 1813 at

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. He was a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Donegal from 1818 until his death at the age of 29 in

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. He died unmarried and with no issue, and was buried in Nice.

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* 1795 births 1824 deaths Courtesy earls Heirs apparent who never acceded Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Donegal constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 Tory MPs (pre-1834)

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Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge {{Conservative-UK-MP-1790s-stub