John Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe

[1] He subsequently sat as Member of Parliament for Petersfield between 1787 and 1790[1][2] and for Wootton Basset between 1790 and 1796.

[1][3] The latter year he was created Baron Dawnay, of Cowick in the County of York, in the Peerage of Great Britain,[4] which gave him a seat in the House of Lords.

He married firstly a daughter of Major John Scott of Balconie.

After her death in 1798 he married secondly Louisa Maria, daughter of George Welstead, of Apsley, Sussex, in 1815.

His widow spent her later years at Bowden Hall in Upton St Leonards, where she endowed the local primary school.