Description
Warrant Signed ‘Hen: Conyngham’, being a small slip of paper written while on campaign in Spain, to [William Musgrave] the Commissary of the Forces, requiring him “to deliver one barrell of pouder to Captain Pable Marogatt de Villa Franca”. 2½ x 6 inches, in good condition. 5 October 1705. Major General Henry Conyngham of Slane Castle (before 1681–1706), Irish soldier. He was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland for Killybegs in 1692-93 and for Donegal County in 1695-99 and 1703-06.Conyngham served during the reign of James II as a captain in Mountjoy’s Regiment. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel of Robert Echlin’s (formerly Sir Albert Conyngham’s) Regiment of Dragoons on 31 December 1691 and appointed colonel of a newly raised regiment of dragoons on 1 February 1693. He was promoted to brigadier-general on 1 January 1703 and major-general on 3 April 1705. He served in Portugal and Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, where he was Governor of Lerida and Lieutenant-General of the King of Spain’s army. He was killed fighting the French at the Battle of St Estevan in January 1706.