Richard Burgh | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Naas |
Term Start: | 1759 |
Term End: | 1762 |
Alongside: | John Bourke and Maurice Keating |
Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Dublin |
Nationality: | Irish |
Parents: | Thomas Burgh Mary Smyth |
Relatives: | Thomas Burgh (brother) Walter Hussey Burgh (nephew) |
Richard Burgh (; ; 1725 – September 1762) was an Irish barrister and politician who was MP for Naas (1759–1762).
Burgh was the son of the military engineer and architect Colonel Thomas Burgh MP and his wife, Mary Smyth. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[1] He trained in law and worked as a barrister of Drumkeen, County Limerick.
In 1759, he succeeded his older brother, Thomas, as Member of Parliament for Naas in the Irish House of Commons, sitting until 1762.[2] He left much of his property to his sister Elizabeth's son, Walter Hussey, on condition of him adopting the additional surname of Burgh.