Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Doctor of Laws, Justice of the Peace was an Irish soldier.
Background
The eldest son of William Lenox-Conyngham and Charlotte Melosina Staples, third daughter of the Rt Honorary John Staples (of Lissan House), he was born at Springhill, County Londonderry and was a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of County Tyrone.
Career
When he retired as a soldier (with the Royal Artillery Militia) he was rewarded with a knighthood. He also, after 1882, accepted the Agency of the Drapers" Company in Londonderry and in this capacity lived in the Manor House, Moneymore. When, after the passing of the Ashbourne Acting, the lands of the Drapers" Company were sold, Sir William and his family went for a short time to live in England, where Sir William died in 1906.