Henry (Dawnay), 2nd Viscount Downe

1664 - 1741  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Henry (Dawnay)  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Viscount Downe
  Christened	7 June 1664  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Office	From 1690 to 1695  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Pontefract
  	He was a Tory.
  Hereditary Title	1 Oct. 1695  [1]
  	2nd Viscount Downe [I., 1681]
  Office	From 1698 to 1700  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Yorkshire
  	He was a Tory.
  Office	From 1707 to 1727  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Yorkshire
  	He was a Tory.
  Buried	21 May 1741  [1]
  Person ID	I1387	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 Jan. 2019

  
  

  Father	John (Dawnay), 1st Viscount Downe,   bapt. 25 Jan. 1624/25,   d. 1 Oct. 1695  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Dorothy Johnson
  Married	14 May 1663  [1]
  Family ID	F757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mildred Godfrey,   d. Aug. 1725
  Married	29 Sept. 1685  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Hon. John Dawnay,   b. 8 Dec. 1686,   d. 12 Aug. 1740  (Age 53 years)
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Dawnay, of Cowick, co. York (Viscount Downe) Argent on a bend cotised Sable three annulets of the field. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 269.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1172.