Rev. Robert Coningham

Awarded the compensation for Colonarie Vale in St Vincent with John Sterling (q.v.) as trustees of W[alter] Coningham. Robert Coningham was himself an annuitant of £500 p.a. on the Colonarie Vale estate under the will of Walter Coningham, as was his sister Hester Sterling (q.v.); after the death of the survivor of the two annuitants, the whole of Walter Coningham's property including Colonarie Vale estate was to be divided among the children of Robert Coningham and Hester Sterling.

1. Will of Walter Coningham of Island of St Vincent proved 22/01/1831; will of Rev. Robert Coningham clerk of Chorley Wood Hertfordshire proved 23/07/1836. This latter will (of Rev. Robert Coningham), made in 1816, is short and merely appointed trustees of his estate, guardians for his son William and three executors: in 1822 he made his wife sole executrix and guardian.

2. Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 22) at PETERHOUSE, Mar. 11, 1807. Of Ireland. Matric. Easter, 1807, as Conyngham; B.A. 1811; M.A. 1826. Ord. deacon (London, Litt. dim. from Ely) Mar. 18, 1810; priest (Ely) June 24, 1810; C. of Abington, 1810. Of Rosehill, Herts. Died May 23, 1836, aged 52, at Chorley Wood, Herts. Father of the next [William Coningham (1815-1884)]. (G. Mag., 1836, II. 217.)

3. Coningham's wife Louisa Capper is in the ODNB as an author.

4. The couple's son William Coningham (1815-1884), MP for Brighton 1857-1864, was a significant donor to the National Gallery.

T71/892 St Vincent no. 459.

1. PROB 11/1781/189; PROB 11/1864/131. The will of William Coningham of Upper Gower street proved 15/02/1826 identifies the testator as the brother of Walter Coningham and uncle of Robert Coningham, PROB 11/1708/276.

2. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online].

3. Mary Anne Perkins, 'Capper [married name Coningham], Louisa (1776-1840), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4599 [accessed 29/10/2012].

4. Haskell, Francis. "William Coningham and His Collection of Old Masters." The Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1063 (1991): 676-81. Accessed June 11, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/884924.