William Henry Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe (15 May 1812 – 26 January 1857) was a British politician.

Background

Downe was the son of the Reverend

William Henry Dawnay, 6th Viscount Downe William Henry Dawnay, 6th Viscount Downe (20 August 1772 – 23 May 1846), styled The Honourable William Henry Dawnay until 1832, was an English clergyman and Irish peer. William was the second son of John Dawnay, 4th Viscount Downe. Educated at ...

, Rector of

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and Thormanby in

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Political career

Downe was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for

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in 1841, a seat he held until 1846. The latter year he succeeded his father in the viscountcy. However, as this was an

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it did not entitle him to a seat in the

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Family

Lord Downe married Mary Isabel, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Bagot, in 1843. They had eight sons and two daughters: * Maj.-Gen.

Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe Major-General Hugh Richard Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe, (20 July 1844 – 21 January 1924) was a British Army general and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Early life Dawnay was the second son of William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe and ...

(1844–1924) * Lt.-Col. Hon. Lewis Payn Dawnay (1 April 1846 – 30 July 1910), Coldstream Guards, inherited

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from his uncle Payan in 1891 * Hon. Alan Charles Dawnay (15 June 1847 – 3 March 1853) * Hon. Guy Cuthbert Dawnay (26 July 1848 – 28 February 1889) * Hon. Lt. Eustace Henry Dawnay (15 April 1850 – 15 December 1928), Coldstream Guards, married Lady Evelyn de Vere Capell, daughter of Arthur de Vere Capell, Viscount Malden, and had issue * Hon. Capt. William Frederick Dawnay (14 October 1851 – 29 September 1904), Staffordshire Militia, married Lady Adelaide Parker, daughter of

Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (17 March 1811 – 24 July 1896), ''styled'' Viscount Parker from 1842 to 1850, was a British peer. Before inheriting the earldom, he sat in the House of Commons as Conservative Memb ...

and had issue * Hon. Geoffrey Nicolas Dawnay (13 December 1852 – 31 December 1941), married Emily Bulteel and had issue * Hon. Capt. (Temp. Maj.) Francis Herbert Dawnay (11 December 1853 – 26 June 1914), Yorkshire Hussars, barrister * Hon. Alice Isabell Dawnay (1855 – 8 October 1929) * Hon. Edith Mary Dawnay (1856 – 15 July 1941), married Robert Grant-Suttie and had issue He died in January 1857, aged 44, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest son,

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. Lady Downe later remarried and died in April 1900. Lord Downe, his wife and her second husband, are buried in the churchyard of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Downe, William Dawnay, 7th Viscount 1812 births 1857 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs who inherited peerages

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