CONYERS, John (1650-1725), of Walthamstow, Essex.

The son of a distinguished lawyer, Conyers, himself a practising lawyer, owned lands at Pixton and Mill Place, East Grinstead,W. H. Hills, East Grinstead, 44. for which he was returned as a Tory, becoming chairman of the committee of ways and means of the House of Commons. At the accession of George I it was moved that he be replaced as chairman, but Walpole spoke in his favour and he retained the position until the dissolution.Chandler, vi. 4. Subsequently he voted against the Government in all recorded divisions. He died 10 Mar. 1725.