Henry Pleydell (Dawnay), 3rd Viscount Downe

1727 - 1760  (33 years)

• Name	Henry Pleydell (Dawnay)  [1]
  Suffix	3rd Viscount Downe
  Born	8 April 1727  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.)  [1]
  Hereditary Title	12 Aug. 1740  [1]
  	3rd Viscount Downe [I., 1681]
  Military Service	Lt.-Col., 25th Foot  [1]
  	Battles of Minden (1759) and Campen near Wesel (16 October 1760)
  Office	Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales  [1]
  Office	From 1750 to 1760  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Yorkshire
  	He was a Whig.
  Died	9 Dec. 1760  [1]
  Person ID	I1393	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 Jan. 2019

  
  

  Father	Hon. John Dawnay,   b. 8 Dec. 1686,   d. 12 Aug. 1740  (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Charlotte Louisa Pleydell,   bur. 19 April 1729
  Married	10 Aug. 1724  [1]
  Family ID	F761	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.