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Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, KCB PC (c. 1685 – 1 December 1758) was a British politician and courtier of the 18th century.
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Biography
He was the second surviving son of Hon. John Darcy, M.P. and the younger brother of Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness.
Darcy matriculated fellow-commoner from King's College, Cambridge in 1703. From 1712 to 1714, and 1715 to 1717, he was one of the commissioners for the office of Master of the Horse. He was made Master of the Household from 1720 to 1730 and Comptroller of the Household from 1730 to 1755.
He bought Aske Hall in 1722 and extensively remodelled it. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1727 to 1740.
He was invested in 1725 as a Founder Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and was sworn a Privy Counsellor in 1730.
He was a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, a charity set up to care for foundlings (abandoned children).
Family
In August 1714 Darcy married Mary (died 20 August 1726), daughter of Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (and widow of Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex). On 12 September 1728 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Rotherham of Much Waltham, Essex, (and widow of Sir Theophilus Napier, 5th Baronet, of Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and of Thomas Howard, 6th Lord Howard of Effingham).