Editing Springhill House (section)

===National Trust===
William Arbuthnot Lenox-Conyngham died in 1938 and the estate passed to his elder son Capt. William Lowry Lenox-Conyngham who led the local [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] during the [[Second World War]] as a result of being invalided out of the [[National Defence Corps]] in 1940. Realising that the finances of the family were now in terminal decline and recognising that neither he nor his brother had any children to carry on the direct line, William Lowry entered into negotiations with the [[National Trust]] in 1956 with a view to handing over the house. This had followed a chance meeting with [[Earl of Enniskillen|Nancy, Countess of Enniskillen]] who had presented [[Florence Court]] in [[County Fermanagh]] to the Trust the previous year. In the event, he signed his will bequeathing the house and estate to the National Trust only three days before his death in 1957.

William's uncle George Hugh Lenox-Conyngham married Barbara Josephine née Turton whose mother Lady Cecilia was the daughter of [[Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown]] of [[Russborough House|Russborough]] County Wicklow. They had two sons Denis Hugh and Alwyn Douglas and two daughters Cecilia Laura and Eileen Mary, born in Edinburgh. Their father had, like previous members of the family, been educated in Edinburgh, in George's case at [[Fettes College]] where he was the first former pupil to return as a school master. After being Housemaster of Kimmerghame House, he became a priest. His first living was at [[Denver, Norfolk]], then he was appointed Rector of [[St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham|Lavenham]], a living that was held by his old Cambridge College [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Gonville & Caius]]. Eileen, Denis, their mother Barbara and aunt Alice Lenox-Conyngham travelled on the Titanic.<ref>Schoolgirl's unseen letter tells of Titanic accident before it even set off on doomed voyage – [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/titanic-accident-before-it-even-set-755495 Daily Mirror, 8 March 2012]</ref><ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/news/publican-buys-letter-from-titanic-passenger-1.971688 Publican buys letter from Titanic passenger] – The Irish Times, 25 February 2004</ref>

Following the death of William Lowry in 1957, the head of the family became Captain Alwyn Douglas Lenox-Conyngham RN, his elder brother Denis having died in China in 1928, whilst serving with his regiment [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)|The Cameronians]]. His eldest son Charles Denis Lenox-Conyngham, former managing director of [[Blue Funnel Line]] and chairman of [[Sealink]] is the current head of the family.