Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe FRS (8 April 1727 – 9 December 1760), was a British soldier and politician. Dawnay was the eldest son of the Honourable John Dawnay, son of

Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe (7 June 1664 – 21 May 1741), styled The Honourable Henry Dawnay between 1681 and 1695, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1690 and 1707 and in the British House of Co ...

. His mother was Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Robert Pleydell, of

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. He succeeded his grandfather in the viscountcy in May 1741, aged 14. As this was an

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it did not entitle him to a seat in the English

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(although it did entitle him to a seat in the

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). He was consequently eligible for election to the

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and in 1750 he was returned as one of two

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for

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, a seat he held until his death ten years later. Lord Downe also served in the

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as a lieutenant-colonel in the

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. He fought in the

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in 1759 and commanded the regiment in the Battle of Campen in October 1760. He died in December 1760 from wounds received during the latter battle, aged 33. Lord Downe never married and was succeeded by his younger brother,

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