The title of Viscount Downe was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1680 . The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron Dawnay (1897 ) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , under which he sat in the House of Lords before 1999 .
Viscounts Downe, First Creation (1675 ) William Ducie, 1st Viscount Downe (c. 1612 -1679 )
Viscounts Downe, Second Creation (1680 ) John Dawnay, 1st Viscount Downe (1625 -1695 ) Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe (1664 -1741 ) Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe (1727 -1760 ) John Dawnay, 4th Viscount Downe (1728 -1780 ) John Christopher Burton Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe (1764 -1832 ) William Henry Dawnay, 6th Viscount Downe (1772 -1846 ) William Henry Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe (1812 -1857 ) Hugh Richard Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe (1844 -1924 ) John Dawnay, 9th Viscount Downe (1872 -1931 ) Richard Dawnay, 10th Viscount Downe (1903 -1965 ) John Christian George Dawnay, 11th Viscount Downe (b. 1935 )
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Downe: Information from Answers.com (255 words)
Downe is a village in the London Borough of Bromley, England. Downe lies in a wooded valley, and much of the centre of the village is unchanged; the former village school now acts as the village hall. Downe is the location of Buckston Browne Farm, built in 1931 as a surgical research centre by the Royal College of Surgeons.
Viscount Downe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (372 words)
Viscount Downe is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. His son, the eighth Viscount , was a Major-General in the Army and served in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and in the Second Boer War. The first Viscount of the second creation was the brother of Sir Christopher Dawnay, 1st Baronet, of Cowick, a title which became extinct in 1644 (see Dawnay Baronets, of Cowick).
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