Henry Conyngham (soldier)

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Major General Henry Conyngham of Slane Castle (before 1681–1706) was a soldier and politician. He was member of Parliament for Coleraine.[citation needed]

Conyngham served during the reign of James II as a captain in Mountjoy's Regiment. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel of Robert Echlin's (formerly Sir Albert Conyngham's) Regiment of Dragoons on 31 December 1691 and appointed colonel of a newly raised regiment of dragoons on 1 February 1693. He was promoted to brigadier-general on 1 January 1703 and major-general on 3 April 1705. He served in Portugal and Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, and was killed at the Battle of St Estevan in January 1706.[1]

Family

He was the only surviving son of Sir Albert Conyngham.[1] By his wife Mary, widow of Charles Petty, 1st Baron Shelburne and daughter of Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Minster, he had a second son Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham, and an only surviving daughter, Mary Conyngham,[2] who married his parliamentary successor, Francis Burton.[3] Their son Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham was ancestor of the Marquesses Conyngham,[2] who also inherited the Minster estate.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714, volume III (London, 1896) page 183
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Conyngham, Baron (I, 1781) in Cracroft's Peerage. Accessed 1 September 2012.
  3. ↑ James Kelly, ‘Conyngham, William Burton (1733–1796)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
  4. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume II (Exeter, 1902) page 168

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