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 352 CONVNGHAM. 1830, ho was Lord Steward of the Household ; P.C., 1821 ; Judge of the Marshalsea Court and of the Court of the King's Palace. He to., 5 July 1794, at St. Martins-in- the-fields, Elizabeth, 1st da. of Joseph Denison, Banker, of St. Mary Axe, Loudon, and of Ueubies, in Dorking, Surrey, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of William Biti.kr, Merchant, of Lisbon. He </., after a lingering illness, 28 Dee. 1632, aged 66, in Hamilton Place, Midx., and was bur. at Patrixbourne, eo. Kent. Will pr. June 1833. His widow, who was sister and eventually sole h. of William Joseph Denison, of Seamer, in the East Hiding of co. York, anil who was well-known an a eourt favourite( a ) of George [V, d. 11 Oct. 1861, aged 92, at Bifrons, near Canttrbury.( b ) Will pr. 30 Dec. 1861, under ±200,000. [Henry Joseph Uoxyngham, sir/led Earl of Mount Charles, 1st s. and h. ap», 6. 8 April 1795 : M.r. for co. Douegall, 1818-24. He d. unm. and v.p. 26 Dee. 1S24, at Nice, and was bur. there. Will pr. June 1823. Marquessate [I.] 1 2 and 4- FharOIS Nathaniel (Conyng- IL Earldom and Viscountcy [I.] III. Barony [I.] IV. ham), Mako.iess Conyngham, See. [I.], also Barou Minster, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and 11, b. 11 June 1797. in Dublin. Page of Honour to tiie Prince Regent tiil 1S20, when he entered the Army, in which final!} • 1832. (1874) he became General ; M.P. for Westbury, 1818- 20, for co. Donegall, 1825-31 ; First Groom of the Chambers and Master of the Robes, 1820 ; Under Sec of State for Foreign Affairs, 1823-26 ; G.C.H. (civil), 1S23 ; one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1827-30 ; K.P., 27 March 1S33 ; Postmaster Gen., July to Dec. 1834, and, again, for three weeks in May 1S35 ; B.C., 1835: and Lord Chamberlain, 1835-39. He was also Commodore of the Irish Yacht Club and Vice Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club. He m. 24 April 1824, at the house of the Duke of Argyll in Brook Street, St. Geo. Hau. Sq., Jane, 2nd da. of Henry William (Paget), 1st Marquess of Anglesey, by his 1st wife, Catherine Elizabeth, da. of George (Vileiehs), 4th Eakl of Jersey. She, who was b. 13 Oct. 1798, d. 28 Jan. 1876, at No. 14, Marine Crescent, Folkestone. He d. within six months, 17 July 1876, at 5, Hamilton Place, Midx., after an operation for lithotomy. Will pr. 25 Aug. 1876, under £500,000. Divided into three classes, they were as uuder, viz., 1 Marquessate [Aileswry] and 5 Earldoms [Eldon, Falmouth, Howe, So.mers, and Sthadhroke] conferred on Peers of lower grade, i.e. the Earl of Ailesbury, Baron Eldon (the Lord Chancellor), the Viscounts Falmouth and Curzon, the Barons Summers and Kous ; also 1 Viscountcy [Hutchinson] and 7 Baronies [Ker, Minster, Okmonok, Wemyss, Ci.anrkasill, Kingston, and Silchestek], conferred on Scotch and Irish Peers [i.e. the Earl of Donoughmore [I.], the Marquess of Lothian [S.l the Marquess Conyngbaui [I.], the Earl of Ormonde [I.], the Earl of Wemyss [S.J, and the Earls of lloden, Kingston, and Longford [I ] respectively ; and also 8 Baronies conferred on Commoners, viz., Glenlyon {Murray), Maryborough (Pole-Wellcsley), Oriel [Potter), Stowell (Scoti), Ravensworth (Liddell), Delamere (Vlwlmundclcy), Forrester (Forrester), and RayleigH [Strutt). Total — I Marquessate, 5 Earldoms, 1 Viscountcy, and 15 Baronies, viz., in all 22, the same number [U.K.] as cr. by his br. and successor, William IV, in 1831, on the like occasion (see p. 312, note "a"), and twice the number cr. at the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838 (see p. 145, note "b.") (a) It is said that she had received jewels worth £80,000 from that King. Anyhow, Mr. Greville, in his " memoirs," states (1821)" she comports herself entirely as Mistress of the Household," " lives in one of the houses iu Marlborough Row," " has presents of enormous value," and (1S29) " the wealth Lady C. must have accumulated by savings and presents must be enormous ; the King continues to heap all kinds of presents upon her, and she lives at his expense. They [i.e. the Marquess and herself] do not possess a servant ; all [such] have situations in the King's household from which they receive their pay, while they continue in the service of the Conynghams. They dine every day, while in London, at St. James', and when they give a dinuer, it is cooked at St. James' and brought up to Hamilton Place." ( b ) Their 2nd and yst. s., Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, by Royal lie. 1849, took the surname of Denison on inheriting the estates of that family, and was in 1850, cr. Baron Londesborough.