The Conroy Baronetcy, of Llanbrynmair in the historic County of Montgomery, Wales, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
The title was created on 7 July 1837 for Sir John Conroy, Comptroller of the household of the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria. Victoria had previously dismissed Conroy from her household and the baronetcy was conferred on him with the understanding that he would not show himself at court in return. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1900.
Conroy baronets (1837) Sir John Conroy, 1st Baronet (1786–1854) Sir Edward Conroy, 2nd Baronet (1809–1869) Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet (1845–1900)
Patrilineal descent
The Conroys descended from the Ó Maolconaire family of Elphin, Co.Roscommon. The family had been the hereditary Ollamhs to the O'Connor Kings of Connacht. Their line was descended from Maoilin Ó Maolchonaire who was the last recognised Chief of the Sept.Edmund Curtis, 'The O'Maolchonaire Family: Unpublished Letters from Sir Edward Conry, Bart., to H.F. Hoare, Esq., 1864' in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol 19, No. 3/4, (1941)
Torna Mór Ó Maolchonaire, Chief of the Sept, d. 1435 Seán Rua Ó Maolchonaire Domhnall Rua Ó Maolchonaire, d. 1504 Conchobhar Ó Maolchonaire, Chief of the Sept, d. 1533 Maolmhuire Ó Maolchonaire, Chief of the Sept Maoilin Ó Maolchonaire, Last Chief of the Sept, d. 1637 Torna Ó Maolchonaire Seán Ó Maolchonaire, d. 1672 (while fighting for the French during the Franco-Dutch War) Ferfeasa Conry, d. 1746 (first of this line to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism) John Conry of Elphin, d. 1769 John Conry, d. 1795 Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1st Baronet (1786–1854) Sir Edward Conroy, 2nd Baronet (1809–1869) Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet (1845–1900)
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