Viscount Downe is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1675 for William Ducie. However, the title became extinct on his death in 1679. The second creation came in 1680 for John Dawnay. He had earlier represented Yorkshire and Pontefract in the English House of Commons. His son, the second Viscount, also represented these constituencies in the House of Commons. His grandson, the third Viscount, sat as a member of parliament for Yorkshire but died from wounds received at the Battle of Campen in 1760. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Viscount, who represented Cirencester and Malton in Parliament.
Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester JP was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1671 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Manchester.
Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and of Battersea, was an English Member of Parliament.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Earl of Coventry, became 5th Baron Coventry on the death of his nephew in 1687. He was created 1st Earl of Coventry in 1697. He was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1687 when he succeeded to the peerage.
Hon. John Grey, of Enville Hall, Staffordshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698.
Major-General Hugh Richard Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe, was a British Army general and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
William Henry Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe was a British politician.
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, PC, FRS was an English merchant, politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1654 until 1658.
Sir John Morton, 2nd Baronet of Milbourne St Andrew in Dorset, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1695.
John Christopher Burton Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe, styled The Honourable John Dawnay until 1780, was a British Whig politician and peer.
John Dawnay may refer to:
Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe, styled The Honourable Henry Dawnay between 1681 and 1695, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1690 and 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1727.
The Honourable Henry Belasyse, or Bellasis, May 1604 to May 1647, was an English politician from Yorkshire who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1625 and 1642.
Sir Thomas Cheek, Cheeke or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1614 and 1653.
Sir William Uvedale was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1645. He supported the Royalist cause in the Civil War.
John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway was an English Whig politician and peer who sat in the British House of Commons between 1727 and 1751. He was elevated to the peerage of Ireland as the first Viscount Galway in 1727.
Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1704, and briefly became Father of the House in 1704 as the member with the longest unbroken service.
Christopher Wandesford, 1st Viscount Castlecomer was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire; Battersea, Surrey; and Berkeley Street, Westminster, Middlesex, was an English politician. In 1685 he was pardoned for a murder.
John Machell (1637–1704) was for twenty years Member of Parliament for Horsham, Sussex, during the reigns of Charles II, James II and William III and Mary II. By the marriage of his daughter Isabella Machell (1670–1764) to Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine, he became the grandfather of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Viscounts of Irvine, and great-grandfather of the ninth, seated at Temple Newsam near Leeds, whose family inherited and augmented his valuable property of Hills house at Horsham, and continued the parliamentary tradition there.
