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Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham PC (1705 – 3 April 1781) was a British nobleman and politician.
An absentee landlord, he owned extensive properties in counties Meath and Donegal, while spending most of his time abroad. Despite being a British MP, he also controlled the pocket Irish constituency of Newtown Limavady and sat for Killybegs between 1727 and 1753.
In 1765 he was made a Privy Councillor of Ireland.
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