William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Army officer
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About William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, (25 April 1824 – 4 December 1906) was an Irish soldier. The eldest son of William Lenox-Conyngham and Charlotte Melosina Staples, third daughter of the Rt Hon.
- John Staples (of Lissan House), he was born at Springhill, County Londonderry and was a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of County Tyrone.
- He married Laura Calvert Arbuthnot (1830-1917) and had thirteen children; William Arbuthnot Lenox-Conyngham, Rev.
- George Hugh Lenox-Conyngham, Elizabeth Mary Clark, John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham, Charlotte Melosina Leonox-Conyngham, Arthur Beresford Lenox-Conyngham, Sir Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, Ernest Lenox-Conyngham, Edward Fraser Lenox-Conyngham, Hubert Lenox-Conyngham, Alwyn Lenox-Conyngham, Laura Eleanor Duff and (Harriet) Alice Katherine Lenox-Conyngham (a passenger on the RMS Titanic).When he retired as a soldier (with the Royal Artillery Militia) he was rewarded with a knighthood.
- He also, after 1882, accepted the Agency of the Drapers' Company in Londonderry and in this capacity lived in the Manor House, Moneymore.
- When, after the passing of the Ashbourne Act, the lands of the Drapers' Company were sold, Sir William and his family went for a short time to live in England, where Sir William died in 1906.
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