John (Dawnay), 4th Viscount Downe

1728 - 1780  (52 years)

• Name	John (Dawnay)  [1]
  Suffix	4th Viscount Downe
  Born	9 Aug. 1728  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Office	From 1754 to 1768  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Cirencester
  Hereditary Title	9 Dec. 1760  [1]
  	4th Viscount Downe [I., 1681]
  Office	From 1768 to 1774  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Malton
  Died	21 Dec. 1780  [2]
  Person ID	I1394	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 Jan. 2019

  
  

  Father	Hon. John Dawnay,   b. 8 Dec. 1686,   d. 12 Aug. 1740  (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Charlotte Louisa Pleydell,   bur. 19 April 1729
  Married	10 Aug. 1724  [1]
  Family ID	F761	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Laura Burton,   d. 24 April 1812
  Married	20 May 1763  [1]
  Children	1. John Christopher Burton (Dawnay), 5th Viscount Downe,   b. 15 Nov. 1764,   d. 18 Feb. 1832  (Age 67 years) + 2. Rev. William Henry (Dawnay), 6th Viscount Downe,   b. 20 Aug. 1772,   d. 23 May 1846  (Age 73 years)   3. Hon. Marmaduke Langley,   b. 26 July 1777,   d. 1 Oct. 1851  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F763	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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1172. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1173.