Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet
Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet,(" ca".
1695 – 6 April 1743) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1743.
Newton was the only son of Sir John Newton, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Susanna Warton, daughter of Michael Warton of Beverley, and sister of Sir Michael Warton.
The Newton family fortune derived originally from the legacy of a Grantham moneylender.
Newton also inherited a significant fortune from his maternal uncle, Sir Michael Warton, whom he succeeded as Member of Parliament( MP) for Beverly at the 1722 British general election.
He was one of the wealthy commoners who were made knights of the new Order of the Bath by Sir Robert Walpole in 1725, but in Parliament Newton consistently voted against Walpole's government.
Newton was returned as MP for Grantham at the 1727 British general election and was returned again in 1734 and 1741.
Newton was chief mourner at the 1727 funeral, held at Westminster Abbey, of the eminent scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who was Sir Michael's third cousin once removed.
He also cultivated horse breeding and racing.
In 1730 he married Margaret, Countess of Coningsby, daughter of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby.
The couple had a son and daughter, but the son died in infancy and after Sir Michael's death on 25 March 1743, the baronetcy became extinct.
Ricky Thomas
Ricky L. Thomas( born March 29, 1965) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League.
He is currently the defensive backs coach for the Southwest Minnesota State football team.
He played college football at Alabama.
Thomas has coached for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts during his career.
Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby PC( 2 November 1656 – 1 May 1729) of Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1679 until 1716 when he was created a peer and sat in the House of Lords
Thomas Coningsby I
Thomas Coningsby I( fl. 1559), of Leominster, was an English politician.
He was a Member( MP) of the Parliament of England for Leominster in 1559.
His son was Thomas Coningsby II( died 1616), also an MP.
Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet
Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet( 1739 – 1817) was an Anglo- Irish member of the Irish House of Commons.
Godfrey was the son of John Godfrey, Esquire and Barbara, the daughter of Reverend Hathway.
He was a great- grandson of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby and his family owned a sizeable estate in County Kerry.
He served as High Sheriff of Kerry in 1780.
He was Member of Parliament for Tralee between 1785 and 1790.
On 17 June 1785, he was created a baronet, of Bushfield in County Kerry.
He subsequently served as MP for Belfast between 1792 and 1797.
Godfrey rebuilt the family home at Bushfield House, renaming it Kicolman Abbey in reference to the family's ownership of Killagha Abbey.
Godfrey married
Agnes, the only daughter of William Blennerhassett, on 15 August 1761.
Together they had nine children.
He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, John.
Frances Scudamore, Viscountess Scudamore
Frances Scudamore, Viscountess Scudamore( 1652–1694), formerly Lady Frances Cecil, was the first wife of John Scudamore, 2nd Viscount Scudamore.
She was the only daughter of John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter, by his wife the former Lady Frances Manners.
Her brother, John, became the 5th earl.
She married Viscount Scudamore in 1672, the year after he inherited the title.
In August 1681, Frances is reputed to have eloped with Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby, who was also married.
It was subsequently claimed that he had fathered her children.
They were caught in the act by his wife, and Viscount Scudamore sent a party of men to apprehend the couple, whereupon Frances returned to her husband.
Their children were:
The countess's portrait was painted by Sir Peter Lely.
She was buried at the family seat of Holme Lacy.
Henry Southwell (politician)
Henry Southwell (September 1700 – 20 October 1758), styled The Honourable from 1717, was an Irish politician and soldier.
He was the second son of Thomas Southwell, 1st Baron Southwell and his wife Lady Meliora Coningsby, eldest daughter of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby.
His uncles were William Southwell and Richard Southwell.
In 1729, Southwell entered the Irish House of Commons for Limerick County, the same constituency his father and his older brother Thomas had represented before, and sat for it until his death in 1758.
He was appointed Deputy Governor of County Limerick in and captain of a troop of grenadiers in 1735.
He married Dulcinea Royse, daughter of Reverend Henry Royse, and had by her a son and two daughters.
Thomas Coningsby II
Thomas Coningsby II( died 1616), of Hampton Wafer, Herefordshire was an English politician.
He was the 3rd son of Thomas Coningsby I of Leominster, Herefordshire.
He was a Clerk of the Petty Bag from 1607 to 1609.
He was a Member( MP) of the Parliament of England for Leominster 1601, 1604 and 1614.
Thomas Coningsby
Sir Thomas Coningsby( died 1625) was an English soldier and Member of Parliament, notable for his diary of military action in France in 1591.
Philippa Coningsby
Philippa Congsby( née Phillipa Fitzwilliam; 1530 Melton, Milton, Northamptonshire – 1596) married to Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.

Question: Are Thomas Coningsby, 1St Earl Coningsby and Ricky Thomas from the same country?
Answer: no