Conyers Darcy

Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, KB PC (c. 1685 – 1 December 1758), of Aske, near Richmond, Yorkshire, was a British Army officer, courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1758.

[2] Darcy was returned as Member of Parliament for Yorkshire at a by-election on 3 December 1707, but was defeated at the 1708 general election.

[4] When the Militia was revived in 1758, his nephew Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding, re-appointed him to the colonelcy of the Richmondshire Battalion, North York Militia, which he had first held 50 years earlier.

He bought Aske Hall near Richmond, North Yorkshire in 1722 and extensively remodelled it.

His wife died on 20 August 1726 and on 12 September 1728 he married Elizabeth, twice widowed daughter of John Rotherham of Much Waltham, Essex.

Aske Hall was sold in 1763 by Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness to Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet.