John (Dawnay), 1st Viscount Downe

1625 - 1695  (~ 70 years)

• Name	John (Dawnay)  [1]
  Suffix	1st Viscount Downe
  Christened	25 Jan. 1624/25  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	1660  [1]
  	Knighthood
  Office	1660  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Yorkshire
  Office	From 1661 to 1681  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Pontefract
  Hereditary Title	19 Feb. 1680/81  [1]
  	1st Viscount Downe [I., 1681]
  Office	From 1685 to 1687  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Pontefract
  Office	From 1689 to 1690  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Pontefract
  Died	1 Oct. 1695  [1]
  Person ID	I1382	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 Jan. 2019

  
  

  Father	John Dawnay,   d. 16 March 1629/30
  Mother	Elizabeth Hutton
  Family ID	F751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Melton,   d. 21 Feb. 1662
  Married	4 Aug. 1645  [1]
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Dorothy Johnson
  Married	14 May 1663  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Henry (Dawnay), 2nd Viscount Downe,   bapt. 7 June 1664,   bur. 21 May 1741  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F757	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.

  
  

• Notes

  He was attainted by James II's first Parliament in May 1689. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1172.