Conyers Baronets
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The Baronetcy of Conyers of Horden was created in the Baronetage of England on 14 July 1628 for John Conyers of Horden, Co Durham.
The ancient family of Conyers was well established at Sockburn, near Darlington, Durham by the 12th century. In the 16th century Richard Conyers of Hornby, a descendant of Sir Christopher Conyers of Sockburn, married the heiress of the Horden estate near Peterlee, Durham, and Horden became the family seat.
The second Baronet married Elizabeth Langhorne heiress to an estate at Charlton, Kent and his son, the third Baronet inherited that estate in 1714. The third Baronet had however married the Baldwin heiress to an estate at Great Stoughton, Huntingdonshire in 1675 and moved the family seat there.
After the death of the fourth Baronet, without a male heir, the Horden estate was sold and the Charlton estate passed by entail out of the immediate family. The Baronetcy passed to his cousin, Ralph Conyers of Chester le Street, who was a greatgrandson of the first Baronet. His sons succeeded as the sixth and seventh Baronets, his grandson as eighth Baronet and a third son as the ninth and last Baronet.
[edit] Conyers of Horden (1628)
- Sir John Conyers, 1st Baronet (d1664)
- Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet (1621-1693)
- Sir John Conyers, 3rd Baronet (1649-1719)
- Sir Baldwin Conyers, 4th Baronet (1681-1731)
- Sir Ralph Conyers, 5th Baronet (1697-1767)
- Sir Blakiston Conyers, 6th Baronet (d1791)
- Sir Nicholas Conyers, 7th Baronet (1729-1796)
- Sir George Conyers, 8th Baronet (dc1800)
- Sir Thomas Conyers, 9th Baronet (1731-1810) Extinct on his death
[edit] References
- A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland 2nd Edition (1844)p127-9 John Burke and John Bernard Burke. Google Books
- Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page.
