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 CONYNGHAM 415 5 and 7. Victor George Henry Francis (Conyngham), Marquess Con- YNGHAM [1816], Earl Conyngham [1797], Earl of Mount Charles [18 16], Viscount Conyngham of 1897. Mount Charles [1789], Viscount Mount Charles [1797], Viscount Slane [18 1 6], and Baron Conyngham of Mount Charles [1781], in the peer- age of Ireland, also Baron Minster [U.K. 1 821], 1st s. and h., b. in Charles Str., Berkeley Sq., 30 Jan., and bap. 17 Mar. 1883, at the parish church of Patrixbourne, near Canterbury, the Queen being a sponsor by proxy; styled Earl of Mount Charles till he sue. to the peerage. Sometime Lieut. 3rd batt. Wilts regt. A Conservative. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 9,737 acres in Kent, worth ;^ 1 7,432 a year, besides 122,300 acres in co. Donegal, worth ;^ 15, 166 a year; 27,613 in co. Clare, worth ;^ 10,808, and 7,060 in co. Meath, worth £6,6jo a year. Total, 166,718 acres,(*) worth £^o,o-j6 a year. Principal Residence. — Slane Castle, co. Meath. MARQUESSATE [I.] V. EARLDOM AND VISCOUNTCY [I.] VL BARONY [I.] vn. COOLAVIN See " De Freyne of Coolavin, co. Sligo," Barony (FrencK), cr. 1851. COOMB BANK i.e. " SuNDRiDGE OF CooMB Bank., Kent," Barony {Campbell)^ cr. 1766, see "Argyll," Dukedom [S.], cr. 1701, under the 5th Duke. COOPER OF PAWLETT See " Cooper of Pawlett, Somerset," Barony {Cooper), cr. 23 Apr. 1672 with the Earldom of Shaftesbury, which see. BARONY [I.] . 1660. COOTE OF COLOONYC') Richard Coote, 3rd s. of Sir Charles C, Bart. [L], Provost Marshal of Connaught (slain by the rebel Irish, May 1642), by Dorothea, da. and coh. of Hugh Cuffe, of Cuffe's Wood, co. Cork, was b. 1620; he was of Coloony, co. Sligo; was one of the Commissioners in the precinct of (*) The Marquess Conyngham is one of the 28 noblemen who in 1883 possessed above 100,000 acres in the U.K., being in point of acreage the I2th, but in point of yearly value the 23rd or 24th. See for a list of these, vol. vi, Appendix H. C") Arms. Argent, a chevron Sable between 3 coots Proper. Crest. A coot Proper. Supporters. Two wolves Ermine, gorged with a collar Or. {Not as in Burke's Gen. Armory); ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell. V.G.