Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt explained

Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (24 December 1730 – 8 August 1788) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Viscount Powerscourt
Office:Member of Parliament for Wicklow
Term Start:1761
Term End:1764
Birth Name:Richard Wingfield
Birth Date:24 December 1730
Residence:Powerscourt House, Dublin
Parents:Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt
Dorothy Beresford Rowley
Children:2
Spouse:

Biography

Powerscourt was a younger son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt and Dorothy Beresford Rowley. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1746. He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Wicklow from 1761 to 1764. That year he succeeded his brother, Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt, in his titles and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.[1]

He lived in Powerscourt House, Dublin.

He married Lady Amelia Stratford, daughter of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough and Martha O'Neale, on 7 September 1760. Powerscourt was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard.[2]

Notes and References

  1. William Courthope (Ed.), Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838), p.629-30 (Retrieved 5 October 2016).
  2. William Courthope (Ed.), Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838), p.629-30 (Retrieved 5 October 2016).