George Conyngham, 3rd Marquess Conyngham

[6] He served simultaneously in the militia, being appointed lieutenant-colonel of the disembodied Prince of Wales's Own Donegal Militia on 5 January 1849,[7] and in the yeomanry, being made captain in the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles on 20 April 1859,[8] major on 24 June 1862[9] and lieutenant-colonel commandant on 2 February 1863.

[10] He was granted brevet rank as a full colonel on 24 August 1866[11] and went on half-pay on 13 June 1868.

[14] On 17 July 1876 he succeeded his father as Marquess Conyngham in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Minster in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,[1] and he took his seat in the House of Lords on 2 July 1877.

His widow died at The Mount, Ascot, on 28 November 1907, and was buried on 3 December at Bifrons.

[19] On 17 June 1854 he married Lady Jane St Maur Blanche, only daughter and heiress of Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington.