Earl of Mount Charles
(1825-1882)
9 March 1861

Volume 2, page 283, sitting number 2421.

The Earl of Mount Charles is a courtesy title held by the eldest son of the Marquess of Conyngham; both are titles in the Peerage of Ireland.

George Henry Conyngham was born on 3 February 1825, the son of General Sr Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess of Conyngham and Lady Jane née Paget, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey.

He was educated at Eton between 1837 and 1841 and in 1844 he was commissioned in the 1st Life Guards. He was State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1847 and 1852. Between 1861 and 1868 he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Life Guards and from 1870 to 1872 he was an Equerry to Queen Victoria. He succeeded his father on 17 June 1876, becoming 3rd Marquess of Conyngham.

He married Lady Jane St Maur Blanche Stanhope, daughter of the 4th Earl of Harrington, on 17 June 1854 in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall.

He, his wife and four daughters appear on the 1881 census, living at 36 Belgrave Square, London. The household included twenty-one servants, including two butlers, two footmen, three lady's maids, four housemaids, a valet, a hall porter and a hall boy. 

He died on 2 June 1882, at the age of 57, at his residence in Belgrave Square. He was buried at Patrixbourne in Kent. He left an estate valued at £118,045.