Conyers Darcy
Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, House of Commons between 1707 and 1758.
Early life
Darcy was the second surviving son of
1st Life Guards from 1706 to 1715.[2]
Career
Darcy was returned as
Member of Parliament for Yorkshire at a by-election on 3 December 1707, but was defeated at the 1708 general election. He refused to stand at the 1710 general election. In 1710 he became gentleman of horse and in 1711, avener and clerk martial. From 1712 to 1714, he was one of the commissioners for the office of Master of the Horse.[2]
At the
Privy Counsellor in 1730. He was returned for Richmond again at the general elections of 1734 and 1741. At the 1747 he was returned again for Yorkshire and Richmond and this time chose to sit for Yorkshire. He was re-elected for Yorkshire in the 1754 general election.[3]
Family and legacy
Darcy married Mary Lady Capell, widow of
Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland in August 1714. He bought Aske Hall near Richmond, North Yorkshire in 1722 and extensively remodelled it. His wife died on 20 August 1726 and on 12 September 1728 he married Elizabeth, twice widowed daughter of John Rotherham of Much Waltham, Essex. Her former husbands were Sir Theophilus Napier, 5th Baronet, of Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and Thomas Howard, 6th Lord Howard of Effingham). He was a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, a charity set up to care for foundlings (abandoned children). [4]
Darcy died without issue on 1 December 1758. Aske Hall was sold in 1763 by Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness to Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet.
References
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (August 2014) |
- ^ ACAD & DRCY703C.
- ^ a b "DARCY, Conyers (c.1685-1758), of Aske, nr. Richmond, Yorks". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "DARCY, Conyers (c.1685–1758), of Aske, nr. Richmond, Yorks". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ Brooke 1964.
- "Darcey, Conyers (DRCY703C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Brooke, John (1964), "Darcy, Sir Conyers (?1685–1758), of Aske, nr. Richmond, Yorks.", in Namier, L.; Brooke, J. (eds.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, Boydell and Brewer