Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough

Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, KCH, FRS, FSA (né Conyngham; 21 October 1805 – 15 January 1860), was a British Whig Party[2] politician and diplomat, known as Lord Albert Conyngham from 1816 to 1849.

He was educated at Eton, and was commissioned a cornet and sub-lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards in 1821,[4] before joining the diplomatic service.

[2] He was elected unopposed at a by-election in March 1847[2] and held the seat until he was elevated to peerage in 1850.

In 1851, he bought both Grimston Park, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, and the painting The Monarch of the Glen, the latter for £840.

Henrietta Marie Weld-Forester (a daughter of the 1st Baron Forester) and they had six children:[8] Londesborough's first wife died in 1841, and on 21 December 1847, he married Ursula Bridgeman (a daughter of Vice-Admiral Charles Orlando Bridgeman).