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Graduated MA from Edinburgh University on 27 February 1694. First appointed ministery at Penrith, Cumberland. Coningham received his ordination in August 1694 as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland. In May 1699 he was suggested as a successor to Timothy Manlove as minister of Mill Hill Chapel at Leeds; instead Coningham accepted accepted a post at Cross Street Manchester as co-pastor and as an assistant in the academy in 1700. Coningham, however, faced local hostility for being a dissenter and faced doctrinal divisions within the congregation. He moved to London as minister of Haberdasher Hall. Ill health led to death on 1 September 1716. Buried in Bunhill Fields, London.
 
Graduated MA from Edinburgh University on 27 February 1694. First appointed ministery at Penrith, Cumberland. Coningham received his ordination in August 1694 as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland. In May 1699 he was suggested as a successor to Timothy Manlove as minister of Mill Hill Chapel at Leeds; instead Coningham accepted accepted a post at Cross Street Manchester as co-pastor and as an assistant in the academy in 1700. Coningham, however, faced local hostility for being a dissenter and faced doctrinal divisions within the congregation. He moved to London as minister of Haberdasher Hall. Ill health led to death on 1 September 1716. Buried in Bunhill Fields, London.

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Dates 1669/70-1716
Location London
Vocation Minister
Place of Birth
Marriage Agnes Cookson
Issue
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Graduated MA from Edinburgh University on 27 February 1694. First appointed ministery at Penrith, Cumberland. Coningham received his ordination in August 1694 as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland. In May 1699 he was suggested as a successor to Timothy Manlove as minister of Mill Hill Chapel at Leeds; instead Coningham accepted accepted a post at Cross Street Manchester as co-pastor and as an assistant in the academy in 1700. Coningham, however, faced local hostility for being a dissenter and faced doctrinal divisions within the congregation. He moved to London as minister of Haberdasher Hall. Ill health led to death on 1 September 1716. Buried in Bunhill Fields, London.