134 EARL DE GREY'S ADDRESS. [May 28, 1860. 



diplomatic service. In May, 1824, lie was appointed attache to the 

 British Legation at Berlin, and in the following year removed to 

 Vienna, where he remained until February, 1828, when he was 

 made Secretary of Legation at Florence. In July, 1829, he pro- 

 ceeded to Berlin in the same capacity, and continued in that 

 employment till June, 1831. He sat in the House of Commons 

 for some years previous to his elevation to the House of Lords, 

 having represented Canterhury from 1835 to 1841 ; and again from 

 March, 1847, to the early part of 1850, when he was raised to the 

 peerage by the title of Baron Londesborough. In 1849 he assumed 

 the name of *' Denison," in lieu of that of Conyngham, in accord- 

 ance with the will of his maternal uncle, Mr. William Joseph 

 Denison, who bequeathed to him the bulk of his immense wealth. 

 In politics Lord Londesborough was usually a supporter of Whig 

 principles. He was created by George lY., in 1829, a Knight 

 Commander of the Hanoverian Order, and was a Deputy-Lieu- 

 tenant of the West Riding of York. 



Lord Londesborough's taste for literature, science, and the fine 

 arts, brought him into connexion with this and most of the learned 

 Societies, and with their leading men. He availed himself of every 

 opportunity to co-operate with and to give them encouragement and 

 substantial support. No one was perhaps more identified with the 

 progress of the study of our national antiquities. During his 

 residence at Bourne Park, near Canterbury, he was enabled to make 

 many successful researches in a branch of archaeology heretofore 

 but imperfectly understood, and his and Mr. Akermari's com- 

 munications to the ' Archeeologia,' on the contents of the Saxon 

 tumuli upon Breach Downs and in the neighbourhood, recorded a 

 series of facts which have been often referred to, and which were 

 rapidly augmented by fresh discoveries, made either at his Lord- 

 ship's instigation, or in consequence of his example. In later times 

 his Lordship instituted similar researches in Yorkshire with equal 

 success. 



When the (British Archaeological Association was formed, he 

 (then Lord Albert Conyngham) accepted the office of President ; 

 and by his personal exertions and influence mainly contributed to 

 -the triumph of the new institution at its first congress at Can- 

 terbury. 



The general collection of works of early and mediaeval art at 

 Grimston may be estimated by his 'Miscellanea Graphica,' a 



