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 39^ CONINGSBY 2ndly, about 23 Apr. 1698, against her father's wishj^) Frances, yr. of the 2 daughters and coheirs (whose issue became sole h.) of Richard (Jones), Earl of Ranelagh [I.], by Frances, da. and coh. (whose issue became sole h.) of Francis (Willoughby), 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham. She, who was b. 1674, d. at Hampton Court, 19, and was bur. 23 Feb. iji^/^, at Hope-under-Dinmore, co. Hereford. Admon. 5 Feb. 171 7/8. He d. I, and was bur. 9 May 1729, at Hope afsd., aged about 73. C") Will dat. 4 Mar. 1724, pr. 10 Oct. 1729. II. 1729. 2. Richard (Coningsby), Baron Coningsby of jyj Clanbrassil [I.], grandson and h., being only surv. s. ^ and h. of the Hon. Thomas Coningsby, by ( — ), da. p. of John Carr, of Etal, Northumberland, which Thomas (ed. at Eton 1698) was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, by his 1st wife, but was disinherited by his father and d. v.p. before July 171 7. Owing to the spec. rem. above referred to, he did not succeed to the English Barony, nor to the Earldom. He m. Judith, yst. da. of Sir Thomas Lawley, 3rd Bart., by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, formerly Elizabeth Perkins, widow. He, who was allowed C600 a year by his aunt, Margaret, Countess Coningsby, provided he asserted no rights as heir at law to the estates, d. s.p., 18 Dec. 1729, and was bur. at Hope afsd., when his Peerage became i?x//«f/. Will dat. 17 Oct. 1729, pr. 12 Feb. 1729/30. His widow m. Joseph Butler, of the Temple, London, Barrister, who d. at Pump Court, Temple, 3 Sep. 1737. She d. 23, and was bur. 28 Apr. 1752, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, from St. John's, Westm., aged 38. CONINGSBY, and CONINGSBY OF HAMPTON COURT BARONY. I. Thomas (Coningsby), Baron Coningsby of I. Clanbrassil [1.], was, on 18 June 171 6, cr. BARON 7 CONINGSBY OF CONINGSBY, co. Lincoln, with a to. . remarkable rem. to the heirs male of his body by any wife "' he might thereafter marry,(') and, on 30 Apr. 1 7 1 9, was cr. (*) He disinherited her on account of this marriage, and left his property to Greenwich Hospital. V.G. C") His hanging a man named Gafney without trial in 1691 in Ireland, was afterwards made the subject of a serious parliamentary enquiry at Westminster, and found to have been an arbitrary and illegal act. Matthew Prior fiercely attacked him in a long and indifferent ballad, and Pope refers scornfully to his " harangues." His gallantry at the Boyne and Aughrim got him his Barony, and his zeal for the Hanoverian cause his Earldom. He was a dull, muddle-headed man, as can be gathered from his State Paper on the policy of William and Anne; he hated Harley, and when the latter was told at the time of his threatened impeachment that Coningsby had declared that he would have his head, he replied, " I am sorry I cannot return the compliment, for I would not have his if he would give it me!" V.G. (') He was then a widower, with sons (by his ist wife) living. He is said to have proposed marriage to Sarah, the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough.