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The Queen has also been pleased to give orders for the following appointments to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Order :- Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Fitzwilliam Lenox
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Upon adopting the property, the National Trust undertook a large-scale programme of restoration and re-construction adopting the orthodoxy of 1950s conservation practice which saw the Victorian smoking room demolished, large portions of the house stripped back to stone and all the rooms re-arranged
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The house today contains a vitally important and almost complete collection of one family's occupation for three hundred years. In the Gun Room can be found one of the largest surviving 18th century wallpaper schemes surviving in the UK (Chinese wallpaper from the 1720s), along with a "long gun"
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From William Conyngham II, the estate passed to George Butle in 1721. George was the son of William Conyngham II's sister Anne, who had married David Butle. George thereupon adopted the name Butle-Conyngham. Under the terms of the Plantation Grant, he reconstructed the village of
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and one of Cromwell's Commissioners for County Armagh and held land at Drumcrow in the County and property in the town of Armagh itself. He was granted new title deeds by Cromwell in 1652, 'the old ones having been destroyed in the recent wars'. He died in 1666, when
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By the time of Sir William's death in 1906, there was little left of the estate and as a result of some unwise investments, his son Lt. Col. William Arbuthnot Lenox-Conyngham found financial matters very trying. In 1899 he married Mina Lowry of Rockdale near
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executed 1680 stated that he was required "to build a convenient house of lime and stone, two stories high ... with necessary office houses" for his wife-to-be. It is widely believed that the present house owes its origin to this document though
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Col. William Conyngham died without issue in 1784. The estate passed to his brother David Conyngham who also died childless four years later. As a result, the estate then passed to the son of their sister Ann who had married Clotworthy Lenox of
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since 1957 and, in addition to the house, gardens and park, there is a costume collection and a purported ghost. It is open from March to June, and September on weekends, and is open to the public seven days a week during July and August.
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County Wicklow. They had two sons Denis Hugh and Alwyn Douglas and two daughters Cecilia Laura and Eileen Mary, born in Edinburgh. Their father had, like previous members of the family, been educated in Edinburgh, in George's case at
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in 1940. Realising that the finances of the family were now in terminal decline and recognising that neither he nor his brother had any children to carry on the direct line, William Lowry entered into negotiations with the
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but, after being betrayed by Castlereagh, resigned his commission in disgrace in 1816. As a result of this, combined with his depressive nature, he committed suicide later that year. His 2nd wife Olivia (4th daughter of
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During William Lenox-Conyngham's tenure, the estate was drained and improved and a large well-appointed dining room was added to the rear of the house, complete with a 17th-century Italian chimneypiece salvaged from
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It is believed that some form of farm dwelling was constructed on the estate in the second quarter of the seventeenth century (probably on the site of the present carpark) but this was destroyed during the
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Following the death of William Lowry in 1957, the head of the family became Captain Alwyn Douglas Lenox-Conyngham RN, his elder brother Denis having died in China in 1928, whilst serving with his regiment
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and the city's Member of Parliament 1703–1713. Col. George Lenox, upon inheriting the estate, adopted the name Lenox-Conyngham and his descendants lived in the house until 1961. George served under
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examination of the roof timbers on the central part of the house date the beams to after 1690. At this time, many of the surviving outbuildings along with the rare Dutch styled gardens were created.
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An Old Ulster House, Springhill and the people who lived in it. Author: Mina Lenox-Conyngham (pages 7-8 and note page 238, 2005 edition published by the Ulster Historical Foundation)
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which ‘the garrison of Derry in ye laying of the Siedge’ used, and for which he sought compensation. (T.3161). - Sources in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (1:1)
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An Old Ulster House, Springhill and the people who lived in it. Author: Mina Lenox-Conyngham (pages 7-9 , 2005 edition published by the Ulster Historical Foundation)
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who had married Laura Arbuthnot, daughter of George Arbuthnot of Elderslie (Founder of the Indian Bank, Arbuthnot & Co) in 1856. Her father's elder brother was
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An Old Ulster House, Springhill and the people who lived in it. Author: Mina Lenox-Conyngham (page 66, 2005 edition published by the Ulster Historical Foundation)
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to the Trust the previous year. In the event, he signed his will bequeathing the house and estate to the National Trust only three days before his death in 1957.
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1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Lieutenant of Edinburgh. Sir William Lenox-Conyngham was highly involved in military matters and was knighted (
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where he was the first former pupil to return as a school master. After being Housemaster of Kimmerghame House, he became a priest. His first living was at
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in France. The two wooden crosses that marked his grave were returned to Ireland and now lie inside St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh, next to his memorial.
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William Arbuthnot Lenox-Conyngham died in 1938 and the estate passed to his elder son Capt. William Lowry Lenox-Conyngham who led the local
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née Irvine of Castle Irvine, as published in 'The Ghost-Hunter's Casebook: The Investigations of Andrew Green Revisited', by Bowen Pearse
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and was reduced to around three hundred acres. Finances became a grave concern for the family. Sir William was the last Agent of
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William's uncle George Hugh Lenox-Conyngham married Barbara Josephine née Turton whose mother Lady Cecilia was the daughter of
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From George, the house passed to his eldest son William Lenox-Conyngham in 1816. He had been a talented lawyer in
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but left his legal career to run the estate. In 1818 he married Charlotte Staples, daughter of the Rt. Hon.
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This 17th-century unfortified house was built about 1680-1695 and was originally surrounded by a defensive
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Marriage articles between William Conyngham II (known to the family as "Good Will") and Ann Upton of
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In the old laundry can be found the largest costume collection in Northern Ireland (established by
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and his younger brother Lt. Col. John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham was killed in action at
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From George Butle Conyngham, the estate passed to his eldest son, Col. William Conyngham of the
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Schoolgirl's unseen letter tells of Titanic accident before it even set off on doomed voyage -
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The bedroom contains an intriguing medicine chest, once owned by the 3rd Viscount Molesworth.
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County Donegal, and after his death married George Lenox-Conyngham's uncle William Conyngham.
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taking over in 1957 until her own death in 1961. Col. William Arbuthnot fought in both the
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in 1960) and a selection from the collection is displayed annually in the costume museum.
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during the battle of the Somme, on 3 September 1916, personally leading the 6th Battalion
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William Conyngham I (referred to in family documents as "the elder") was a colonel in the
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in 1956 with a view to handing over the house. This had followed a chance meeting with
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Gravestone of Lt. Colonel John Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham at Carnoy Military Cemetery.
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over the top and into the attack armed only with an ancient revolver. He is buried at
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in 1821. His second wife was the Hon. Henrietta Molesworth, daughter of Field Marshal
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Houses, Castles and Gardens of Ireland-16a Woodlands Park Blackrock Co Dublin Ireland
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and the first of the family in Ulster was said to have been one of the family of the
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in County Kildare. The descendants of their eldest daughter Louisa Anne inherited
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The account of James Lenox in PRONI listing the food and materials owned by him
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When William Lenox-Conyngham died in 1858, the estate passed to his eldest son
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The National Trust owned Beetling Mill is a sister property of Springhill.
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dating to about 1680 which was presented to Alderman James Lenox after the
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Ireland Preserved; or the Siege of Londonderry and the Battle of Aughrim
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in 1881. During his tenure, the estate was largely sold off under the
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near Cookstown. John Staples was a respected lawyer and member of the
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Springhill was used for the location of the three-part adaptation of
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in about 1755, naming the main square Hanover Square in deference to
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Public Record Office of Northern Ireland – Lenox-Conyngham Papers
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An Old Ulster House; Springhill and the people who lived in it
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Supplement to the London Gazette, May 24th, 1881 (page 2674).
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William Lenox-Conyngham, and the Lissan House connection
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1693 and 1697), remembered as one of the leaders of the
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Lt. Colonel John Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham's Memorial
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in Northern Ireland. It has been the property of the
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c.1680–1689 with notable extensions c.1765 and c.1820
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to reflect their appearance when first constructed.
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Springhill House is located in Northern Ireland
Moneymore
County Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54°41′10″N 6°39′22″W / 54.686°N 6.656°W / 54.686; -6.656
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Moneymore
County Londonderry
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Ayrshire
Glengarnock
Earls of Glencairn
Marquesses Conyngham
Sir Albert Conyngham
James I

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