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 DOWNE 453 d. unm., 9 Dec. ensuing, and was bur. at Duisburg, near Moers, aged 33. Will pr. 1 76 1. V. 1760. 4. John (Dawnay), Viscount Downe [I.], next br. and h., b. 9 Apr. 1728; M.P. (Whig) for Cirencester 1754-68; for Malton 1768-74. He m., 20 May 1763, at her father's house, Clifford Str., St. James's, Westm., Lora, only child of William Burton, oi LufFenham, co. Rutland (a Commissioner of Excise), by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of George Pitt, of Strathfieldsaye, Hants. He d. 21 Dec. 1780, and was bur. 7 Jan. 178 i, at Snaith, aged 52. Will pr. Jan. 178 1. His widow, who was b. Feb. 1740, d. in Charles Str., Berkeley Sq., 25 Apr., and was bur. 11 May 1812, at Snaith, aged 72. Will pr. 1 8 12. VI. 1780. 5. John Christopher Burton (Dawnay), Viscount DowNE [I.], 1st s. and h.,() b. 15 Nov. 1764; M.P. (Whig) for Petersfield, i787-9o;() for Wootton-Bassett, 1790-96. On 9 June 1796, he was cr. BARON DAWNAY OF COWICK, co. York. He took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] 10 Feb. 1800, being the only one of the Viscounts Downe who did so, and attended four subsequent sittings. He m., istly, ( — ) yr. da. and coh. of Major John Scott, of Balconie, by Margaret, yst. da. of Robert Dundas. She d. in 1798, aged 23. He ;«., 2ndly, 31 Dec. 18 15, at Snaith, Louisa Maria, da. of George Welstead, of Apsley, Sussex. He d. s.p., at Cowick, of gout in the stomach, 18 Feb., and was bur. 2 Mar. 1832, at Snaith, aged 67, when the Barony of Dawnay of Cowick [G.B.] became extinct.^') M.I. at Snaith. Will pr. July i832.('') His widow d. 20 Mar. 1867, in her 87th year, at Bowdon Hall, co. Gloucester. VII. 1832. 6. William Henry (Dawnay), Viscount Downe [I.], next surv. br. and h., b. 20 Aug. 1772, and bap. at Leatherhead, Surrey; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 29 Dec. 1790, B.A. C) The three Christian names given him in baptism were then such a novelty that G. Williams wrote to George Selwyn, 12 Dec. 1764: "Lord Downe's child is to be christened this evening. The Sponsors I know not, but his three names made me laugh not a little — John Christopher Burton. I wish to God when he arrives at the age of puberty he may marry Mary Josephina Antoinette Bentley." [ex inform. J. H. Round). See also vol. iii, Appendix C. V.G. {^) He was a Whig till the war of 1793, when, like many others, he supported Pitt's Govt, and obtained a British peerage, but after the Treaty of Amiens he reverted to his old party, signing a protest against the acquittal of Lord Melville, and voting for Cath. Emancipation and for the Reform Bill. V.G. (°) The Viscountcy of Downe is the only case in the Peerage of Ireland in which the holder, having possessed a Peerage of England or Great Britain at the time (1801) of the Union, was not in 1890 in possession thereof or of a Peerage of the United Kingdom. C^) His Irish estates were said to be worth ;^7,ooo p. a. in 1797. For a list of the greatest landowners in Ireland then, see Appendix C in this volume. V.G.