Background
Courtenay was the second son of the Right Reverend Henry Reginald Courtenay (d1803), Bishop of Exeter, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Courtenay was the second son of the Right Reverend Henry Reginald Courtenay (d1803), Bishop of Exeter, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham.
He served as Vice-President of the Board of Trade under the Duke of Wellington between 1828 and 1830. In 1828 he was sworn of the Privy Council. Courtenay married Anne, daughter of Mayow Wynell-Mayow, in 1805.
Their second son the Right Reverend Reginald Courtenay (1813–1906) was Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica, between 1856 and 1879.
Their sixth son Richard William Courtenay (1820–1904) was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy. Their seventh son Henry Reginald Courtenay (1823–1911) was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery.
Courtenay drowned while sea bathing at Torquay. in July 1841, aged 59.
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Courtenay sat as Member of Parliament for Totnes from 1811 to 1832 and served under the Duke of Wellington as Vice-President of the Board of Trade from 1828 to 1830.