Name | John Christopher Burton (Dawnay) [1] | |
Suffix | 5th Viscount Downe | |
Born | 15 Nov. 1764 [1] | |
Gender | Male | |
Hereditary Title | 21 Dec. 1780 [1] | |
5th Viscount Downe [I., 1681] | ||
Office | From 1787 to 1790 [1, 2] | |
Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Petersfield | ||
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Office | From 1790 to 1796 [1, 2] | |
Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Wootton Bassett | ||
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Hereditary Title | 9 June 1796 [1] | |
1st and last Baron Dawnay, of Cowick, co. York [G.B., 1796] | ||
Died | 18 Feb. 1832 [1] | |
Person ID | I1398 | British Peerage & Gentry |
Last Modified | 20 Jan. 2019 |
Father | John (Dawnay), 4th Viscount Downe, b. 9 Aug. 1728, d. 21 Dec. 1780 (Age 52 years) | |
Mother | Laura Burton, d. 24 April 1812 | |
Married | 20 May 1763 [2] | |
Family ID | F763 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 | unknown Scott | |
Last Modified | 30 March 2019 | |
Family ID | F765 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 2 | Louisa Maria Welstead, d. 20 March 1867 | |
Married | 9 Dec. 1815 [1] | |
Last Modified | 30 March 2019 | |
Family ID | F768 | 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. |
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