John Conyers (Essex politician)

{{Short description|English politician (1717–1775)}}

{{For|his grandfather|John Conyers (MP for East Grinstead)}}

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John Conyers (13 December 1717 – 8 September 1775) was a British Member of Parliament.{{cite web|title=CONYERS, John (1717–75), of Copt Hall, Essex.|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/conyers-john-1717-75|work=The History of Parliament|accessdate=24 June 2012}}

He was the eldest son of Edward Conyers, MP and was educated at University College, Oxford (1735). He succeeded his father in 1742, inheriting a somewhat dilapidated Copt Hall, near Epping, Essex, which he demolished and rebuilt.

He was a Tory member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Reading from 1747 to 1754 and for Essex from 25 February 1772 to 8 September 1775.

He married twice; firstly Hannah, the daughter of Richard Warner, of North Elmham, Norfolk and secondly his cousin, Lady Henrietta Frances, the daughter of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret. They had 13 children, of whom 8 survived.