John Christopher Burton (Dawnay), 5th Viscount Downe

1764 - 1832  (67 years)

• Name	John Christopher Burton (Dawnay)  [1]
  Suffix	5th Viscount Downe
  Born	15 Nov. 1764  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	21 Dec. 1780  [1]
  	5th Viscount Downe [I., 1681]
  Office	From 1787 to 1790  [1, 2]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Petersfield
  	He was a Whig.
  Office	From 1790 to 1796  [1, 2]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Wootton Bassett
  	He was a Whig.
  Hereditary Title	9 June 1796  [1]
  	1st and last Baron Dawnay, of Cowick, co. York [G.B., 1796]
  Died	18 Feb. 1832  [1]
  Person ID	I1398	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	20 Jan. 2019

  
  

  Father	John (Dawnay), 4th Viscount Downe,   b. 9 Aug. 1728,   d. 21 Dec. 1780  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Laura Burton,   d. 24 April 1812
  Married	20 May 1763  [2]
  Family ID	F763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	unknown Scott
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F765	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Louisa Maria Welstead,   d. 20 March 1867
  Married	9 Dec. 1815  [1]
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F768	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 1173. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1172.