John Dawnay, 4th Viscount Downe

John Dawnay, 4th Viscount Downe (9 April 1728 – 21 December 1780), was a British peer and Whig politician.

His mother was Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Robert Pleydell, while Henry Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe, was his elder brother.

[1] In 1760 he succeeded in the viscountcy after the death of his elder brother in the Seven Years' War.

[2] Lord Downe married Lora, daughter of William Burton, in 1763.

They lived at Cowick Hall in Yorkshire and had at least seven children: Lord Downe died in December 1780, aged 62, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John.

Cowick Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, seat of the Viscounts Downe
Memorial in the north choir aisle or York Minster . To Lora Burton Dawnay, Viscountess Downe, widow of John Dawnay, 4th Viscount Downe