Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe

Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe (7 June 1664 – 21 May 1741), styled The Honourable Henry Dawnay between 1681 and 1695, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1690 and 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1727.

[1] Dawnay succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Pontefract in 1690, a seat he held until 1695.

As this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords (although it did entitle him to a seat in the Irish House of Lords).

[2] Lord Downe married Mildred, daughter of William Godfrey, of Thornock, Lincolnshire, in 1685.

He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his grandson, Henry, his son the Honourable John Dawnay having predeceased him.