Major General Henry Conyngham of

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(before 1681–1706) was an Irish soldier and politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the

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for

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in 1692–93 and for

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in 1695–99 and 1703–06. Conyngham served during the reign of James II as a captain in Mountjoy's Regiment. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel of Robert Echlin's (formerly Sir Albert Conyngham's) Regiment of Dragoons on 31 December 1691 and appointed colonel of a newly raised regiment of dragoons on 1 February 1693. He was promoted to brigadier-general on 1 January 1703 and major-general on 3 April 1705. He served in Portugal and Spain during the

War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish E ...

, where he was Governor of Lerida and Lieutenant-General of the King of Spain's army. He was killed fighting the French at the Battle of St Estevan in January 1706.

Family

He was the only surviving son of Sir Albert Conyngham and Margaret Leslie. By his wife Mary, widow of

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and daughter of Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Minster and Susan Skipwith, he had two sons, William (died 1738) and

Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham PC (1705 – 3 April 1781) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician. He was the second son of General Henry Conyngham of Slane Castle and his wife Mary Williams, daughter of Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet, ...

, and an only surviving daughter, Mary Conyngham, who married Francis Burton. Their son

Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham (born Francis Pierpoint Burton; 1725 – 22 May 1787) was an Irish peer and politician. Biography Burton was the eldest of two sons born to politician Francis Burton of County Clare by his wife, Mary (' ...

, was an ancestor of the

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,Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
Conyngham, Baron (I, 1781)
in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Accessed 1 September 2012. who also inherited the Minster estate.

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