Earl Coningsby was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain

Peerage of Great Britain

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. It was created in 1719 for Thomas Coningsby, 1st Baron Coningsby

Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby

Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby PC was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1679 until 1716 when he was created a peer and sat in the House of Lords-Early life:...

, with remainder to his eldest daughter (by his second wife Lady Frances Jones), Margaret Newton, 1st Viscountess Coningsby, and the heirs male of her body. He was the great-grandson of the soldier and politician Sir Thomas Coningsby

Thomas Coningsby

Sir Thomas Coningsby was an English soldier and Member of Parliament, notable for his diary of military action in France in 1591.-Birth:...

. Coningsby had already been created Baron Coningsby, of Clanbrassil, in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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 in 1693, with normal remainder to heirs male, and Baron Coningsby in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1716, with similar remainder as for the earldom. On Lord Coningsby's death in 1729 he was succeeded in the Irish barony of 1692 by his grandson Richard Coningsby, the second Baron, the son of one of Coningsby's sons from his first marriage to Barbara Georges. However, Richard died already the same year, when the barony became extinct. Lord Coningsby was succeeded in the English barony and the earldom according to the special remainder by his daughter Margaret Newton, 1st Viscountess Coningsby. She had already in 1716 been made Baroness Coningsby, of Hampton Court in the County of Hereford, and Viscountess Coningsby in her own right. Both titles were in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lady Coningsby was the wife of Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet, of Barrs Court (see Newton Baronets

Newton Baronets

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). She had no surviving male issue and the titles became extinct on her death in 1759.

Lady Frances Coningsby, younger daughter of the first Earl by his second marriage, married Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

Charles Hanbury Williams

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB , diplomat, writer and satirist, son of John Hanbury, a Welsh ironmaster, assumed the name of Williams on succeeding to the estate of his godfather Charles Williams, in 1720....

. Their daughter Frances Williams married William Capel, 4th Earl of Essex. Their son George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex

George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex

George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex FSA was an English aristocrat and politician, styled Viscount Malden until 1799.-Life:...

, assumed the additional surname of Coningsby on succeeding to the estates of his great-aunt, the Countess Coningsby.

The seat of the Coningsby family was Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Hampton Court is a castellated country house in the English county of Herefordshire. The house is located in the village of Hope under Dinmore, near Leominster.- History :...

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Barons Coningsby (1692)

• Thomas Coningsby, 1st Baron Coningsby
  Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
  Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby PC was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1679 until 1716 when he was created a peer and sat in the House of Lords-Early life:...
  
   (1656–1729) (created Earl Coningsby in 1719)
• Richard Coningsby, 2nd Baron Coningsby (d. 1729)

Earls Coningsby (1719)

• Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
  Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
  Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby PC was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1679 until 1716 when he was created a peer and sat in the House of Lords-Early life:...
  
   (1656–1729)
• Margaret Newton, 2nd Countess Coningsby (1709–1761)
  • John Newton (d. before 1732)

In fiction

The character of Lady Jane Coningsby in the children's mystery novels, the Lady Grace Mysteries

Lady Grace Mysteries

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, is probably based on Jane, the daughter of Humphrey Coningsby (1516-1559) of Hampton Court

Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Hampton Court is a castellated country house in the English county of Herefordshire. The house is located in the village of Hope under Dinmore, near Leominster.- History :...

 in Herefordshire

Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...

 and his wife, Anne, sister of Sir Francis Englefield

Francis Englefield

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 of Englefield

Englefield

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 House in Berkshire

Berkshire

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; and eventual wife of William Boughton (1543-1596) of Little Lawford at Newbold-on-Avon

Newbold-on-Avon

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 in Warwickshire

Warwickshire

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. She appears as a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth I and friend to the main character, Lady Grace Cavendish

Grace Cavendish

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