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344 CON 1XGSBY — CONNAUGHT. who was allowed i'tiOO a year by his aunt, Margaret, Countess Coningsby, provided lie assorted nu riglits as heir at law to the estates, cl. s.p. 18 Dec. 1729 and was bur. at. Hope afed., when the lillc became extinct. Will dat, 17 Uet. 17-29, pr. 12 Feb. 1729/30. ] lis widow in; Joseph Butlkh of the Temple, London, Banister, who d. at Pump Pourt, Temple, ;j Sep. 1737. She d. a widow, 23 iin.l was bui. 28 April 1752 at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, from St. John's, Westin., aged 38. CONINGSBYj ami CONINGSBY i)F HAMPTON COURT. Barony. I. 1716, to 172 l J. Earldom. I. 1719. I. Thomas (ConikQSuy), Bauon C'oningsmy of Clan- bu.wsil [I.] was, on 18 June 1716. it. BARON CONINGSBY of Coningsby, co. Lincoln, with rem. to the heirs male of his body by any wife he might thereafter marry,(") and, on 9 May 1719. was cr. EARL OF CON1KQSBY, co. IJncoln, with a similar spec, rem., failing which (in this last case) with rem. to his da-, mco jure Viscous- tes-s Comn-csby. See fuller account of him above, under " Coningsby of Clanbiassil." He d. 1 May 1729 when the Barony qf Cuninysby (cr. 1716) became csthu-t, but the Earldom devolves as under. n. 1 729. Viscountcy. I. 1717, i2 and 1. Margaret, mo jure, Countess of Coningsby [1719], Viscountess CONINGSBY OF Hamiton Court and Baroness 01' HamiTON Court [1717], da. [by the 2nd wife) and heir to the Earldom according to the spec. rem. She was 6. about 1709, and had beeu, to v.p., C r. 26 Jan. 1716/7, BARONESS OF HAMPTON COURT, co. 1761. Hereford, and VISCOUNTESS CONINGSRV OF HAMPTON COURT afsd., with rein, of those dignities to the heirs male of her body. She m. 14 April 1730, at St. Anne's, Soho, Sir Michael Newton, 4th Bart., of Barr's Court, co. Glouc, and of Thorpe, co. Lincoln, K.B., who U. s.p.s. in London 6 and was bur. 21 April 1743 at Ha) dor, CO. Lincoln, when the Baronetcy became extinct. Adman. 9 May 1743. The suo jure Countess el. in Hill street, Midi., s.p., 13 and was bur. 24 June 1761 at Haydor, aged 52. M.I. Will pr. 3 July 1761. [Join* Newton, styled Viscount Coningsby, only s. Oct. 1732 ; d. v.m., in infancy, in London, 4 and was bur. 8 Jan. M.I.J CONNAMORB. i.e. "Hake of Connamore, co. Cork," Barony (Hare), cr. 1869. See " Listowbl," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1822, under the 3rd Earl. CONNAUGHT. [See Vol. i, p. xi (under "Irish Peerage, &e., before tho 16th century "), for some notice of the earlier holders of this ancient honour, which passed through De Burgh, 1'lantagenet, and Mortimer, to Plautagenet (again), and on the accession of Edward IV in 1460, became merged in the Crown.] i.e. " CONNATJGHT," Earldom of [XI or. 1764, with " Gloucester and Edinburgh," Dukedom of, which see ; ex. 1834. h. ap., b. 1G i, at Haydor.(b) Dukedom. f. H.Ii.JI. Artjiur William Patrick Albert, Prince 1 1874 ok the United Kingdom ok Great Britain ard Ireland, and also Duke ok Saxony, 3rd s. of Queen Victoria, by II.li.H. Albert, Piuncb Consort, Prince of Saxe-Coburgh and Uotha, and Duke of Saxony, was b. 1 May 1850, at Buckingham Palace, Midx., and bap. there 22 June following ; ed. at Woolwich Academy, 1866 ; Lieut. R.E. and R.A., 1868 ; Capt 7th ( a ) He was then a widower. He is said to have proposed marriage to Sarah, the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough. () He is said to have been dropped from the roof of a house by a monkey. Ex inform,. E. VL Boyle, deceased.