Henry Conyngham (soldier)

Major General Henry Conyngham of Slane Castle (before 1681–1706) was an Irish soldier and politician.

He was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland for Killybegs in 1692-93 and for Donegal County in 1695-99 and 1703-06.[1]

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, where he was Governor of Lerida and Lieutenant-General of the King of Spain's army. He was killed fighting the French at the Battle of St Estevan in January 1706.[2]

Family

He was the only surviving son of Sir Albert Conyngham.[3] 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, who married Francis Burton.[4] Their son Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham, was ancestor of the Marquesses Conyngham,[5] who also inherited the Minster estate.[6]

Notes
  1. "Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  2. Dalton 1896, p. 183, Note 2, line 3: "Killed at the battle of St. Estevan, in Spain, in Jan. 1706."
  3. Dalton 1896, p. 183, Note 2, line 4: "This gallant officer was the only surviving son of Sr Albert Conyngham, Knt., and ancestor of the present Marquis Conyngham."
  4. Kelly 2004, p. 80: "... Francis Burton (1696–1743) politician and landowner, of Buncraggy, co. Clare, Ireland, and Mary Conyngham (d.1737) the only surviving daughter of Major-General Henry Conyngham ..."
  5. Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Conyngham, Baron (I, 1781) Archived 2013-04-20 at Archive.today in Cracroft's Peerage. Accessed 1 September 2012.
  6. Cokayne 1902, p. 168: "He suc. to the estate of Minster Court, co. Kent, on the death, 26 March 1669, of his uncle Sir John Williams Bart. ..."
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