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British politician
The Honourable
John Dawnay
(8 December, 1686 ? 12 August, 1740) of
Cowick Hall
, Yorkshire was a British politician who sat in the
House of Commons
between 1713 and 1716.
Dawnay was the son of
Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe
and his wife Mildred Godfrey, daughter of William Godfrey, of Thornock,
Lincolnshire
. He matriculated at
Christ Church, Oxford
on 16 July, 1703, aged 16 and was created M.A. on 9 July, 1706.
[1]
At the
1713 general election
Dawney was returned as
Member of Parliament
for
Aldborough
and
Pontefract
constituencies. There was a petition against the result at Aldborough, but this had not been resolved by the time the Parliament was dissolved in 1715. While there was an outstanding petition against one of the elections, he was not required to choose which constituency he would represent, and so sat for both boroughs throughout the Parliament.
[2]
He was returned for Pontefract at the
1715 general election
until he was unseated on petition on 22 March, 1716.
[3]
Dawnay married Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Robert Pleydell, of
Ampney Crucis
,
Gloucestershire
, on 10 August, 1724. She died in April 1729. Dawnay died on 31 July, 1740, aged 53, predeceasing his father by one year and was buried on 12 August
[3]
at Snaith.
[1]
His sons
Henry
and
John
both succeeded in turn to the viscountcy.
[4]
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