Maj.-Gen. Hugh Richard (Dawnay), 8th Viscount Downe

1844 - 1924  (79 years)

• Name	Hugh Richard (Dawnay)  [1]
  Title	Maj.-Gen.
  Suffix	8th Viscount Downe
  Born	20 July 1844  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England   [1]
  Education	Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Hereditary Title	From 26 Jan. 1857 to 21 Jan. 1924  [1]
  	8th Viscount Downe [I., 1681]
  Decoration	1886  [1]
  	Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.)
  Military Service	From 1887 to 1892  [1]
  	Lieutenant-Colonel, 10th Hussars
  Hereditary Title	From 24 July 1897 to 21 Jan. 1924  [1]
  	1st Baron Dawnay of Danby [U.K., 1897]
  Decoration	1900  [1]
  	Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.)
  Military Service	to 1902  [1]
  	Major-General, H. M. Army
  Decoration	Nov. 1902  [1]
  	Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.)
  Decoration	Dec. 1902  [1]
  	Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.)
  Died	21 Jan. 1924  [1]
  Person ID	I2901	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	22 July 2023

  
  

  Father	William Henry (Dawnay), 7th Viscount Downe,   b. 15 May 1812
  Mother	Mary Isabel Bagot,   d. 14 April 1900
  Married	25 July 1843  [2]
  Family ID	F772	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Dawnay, of Cowick, co. York (Viscount Downe) Argent on a bend cotised Sable three annulets of the field. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 269.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1174. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1173.