Lord Francis Conyngham
Lord Francis Nathaniel Conyngham (24 September 1832 – 14 September 1880) was an
United Kingdom Parliament as a member of parliament
.
Background
Conyngham was a younger son of
Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of lieutenant.[1]
Political career
Conyngham was returned to Parliament for County Clare[1] in 1857,[2] a seat he held until 1859 and again between 1874 and 1880.[3][4]
Personal life
Conyngham married the Hon. Georgiana Charlotte, daughter of the 1st Baron Tredegar, in 1857.[3] There were no children from the marriage. He died in Gloucester, in September 1880, aged 47.[4][5]
His wife later remarried and died in April 1886.
References
- ^ a b c Burke, Bernard (1880). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison. p. 286.
- ^ "Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April 1857". The London Gazette (21995): 1535. 1 May 1867 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Thom, Adam Bisset (1876). The Upper Ten Thousand, for 1876: A Biographical Handbook of All the Titled and Official Classes of the Kingdom, with Their Addresses (Second ed.). London: Kelly and Company. p. 100.
- ^ a b The Annual Register: A Review of Public Event at Home and Abroad for the Year 1880. London: Rivingtons. 1881. p. 201.
- ^ H. Mair, Robert, ed. (1884). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage (171st ed.). London: Dean and Son. p. 178.