Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Hertford
KG PC PC (Ire)
Portrait by Joshua Reynolds
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
In office
7 August 1765 – October 1766
MonarchGeorge III
Preceded byThomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath
Succeeded byGeorge Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol
Personal details
Born
Francis Seymour-Conway

5 July 1718
Died14 June 1794(1794-06-14) (aged 75)
CitizenshipBritish
SpouseLady Isabella Fitzroy (m. 1741)
Children13
Arms of Seymour-Conway, Marquess of Hertford: Sable, on a bend cotised argent a rose gules between two annulets of the first (Conway); quartering: Quarterly, 1st and 4th: Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lys azure three lions of England (special grant to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford (d.1552)); 2nd and 3rd: Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or (Seymour)[1]

Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, KG, PC, PC (Ire) (5 July 1718 – 14 June 1794) of Ragley Hall, Arrow, in Warwickshire, was a British courtier and politician who, briefly, was Viceroy of Ireland where he had substantial estates.

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, pp.571,1036