Guy Dawnay (politician)

Guy Cuthbert Dawnay (26 July 1848-28 February 1889), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

Dawnay was the fourth son of William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe, and his wife Mary Isabel, daughter of the Right Reverend the Hon. Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford. He entered Parliament for the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1882, a seat he held until 1885, and served in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1885 to 1886.

Dawnay died in February 1889, aged only 40, killed by a buffalo in East Africa.

See also

* Viscount Downe

References

* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]