Lord Francis Conyngham

Lord Francis Nathaniel Conyngham (24 September 1832 – 14 September 1880) was an Irish politician who sat in the United Kingdom Parliament as a member of parliament.

Background

Conyngham was a younger son of Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham{{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6IaAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lord+Francis+nathaniel+Conyngham&pg=PA286 |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |publisher=Harrison |year=1880 |location=London |pages=286 |language=en}} and Lady Jane ({{nee}} Paget), daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He served in the Royal Navy and reached the rank of Lieutenant.

Political career

Conyngham was returned to Parliament for County Clare in 1857,{{Cite journal |date=1 May 1867 |title=Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April 1857 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PD5EAAAAcAAJ&dq=Lord+Francis++Conyngham+Clare&pg=RA40-PA1535 |journal=The London Gazette |issue=21995 |pages=1535 |via=Google Books}} a seat he held until 1859 and again between 1874 and 1880.{{Cite book |last=Thom |first=Adam Bisset |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfhsAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lord+Francis+nathaniel+Conyngham&pg=PA100 |title=The Upper Ten Thousand, for 1876: A Biographical Handbook of All the Titled and Official Classes of the Kingdom, with Their Addresses |publisher=Kelly and Company |year=1876 |edition=Second |location=London |pages=100 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b41OAQAAMAAJ&dq=Francis+Conyngham+Clare+parliament+eulogy&pg=RA1-PA201 |title=The Annual Register: A Review of Public Event at Home and Abroad for the Year 1880 |publisher=Rivingtons |year=1881 |location=London |pages=201 |language=en}}

On 11 September 1867 he was commissioned as a Captain in the part-time Donegal Artillery Militia (Prince of Wales's).Army List, various dates.

Personal life

Conyngham married the Hon. Georgiana Charlotte, daughter of the 1st Baron Tredegar, in 1857. There were no children from the marriage. He died in Gloucester, in September 1880, aged 47.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vlo-AQAAIAAJ&dq=Lord+Francis+Conyngham&pg=PA173 |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |publisher=Dean and Son |year=1884 |editor-last=H. Mair |editor-first=Robert |edition=171st |location=London |pages=178 |language=en}}

His wife later remarried and died in April 1886.