Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Dawnay, Henry, Viscount Downe

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3656539Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 — Dawnay, Henry, Viscount DowneJoseph Foster


Dawnay, Henry, Viscount Downe, s. John, of London, arm. Christ Church, matric. 22 March, 1744-5, aged 17; 3rd viscount, M.P. Yorkshire 1750-60, lord of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, commanded 25th regiment of foot at the battle of Minden 1759, and at the battle of Campen, near Wesel, 16 Oct., 1760, where he was mortally wounded, died s.p. 9 Dec. following. See Foster's Peerage.