The Right Hon. Richard Barré Dunning, 2nd Baron Ashburton (20 September 1782 – 15 February 1823), was a British peer and politician.

Life

Dunning's parents were

John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (18 October 1731 – 18 August 1783), of Spitchwick the parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, was an English lawyer and politician, born in Ashburton in Devon, who served as Solicitor-General from 1768 ...

, and Elizabeth Baring. Dunning succeeded to the title on 18 August 1783 as a one-year-old, and later took his seat in the

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. The barony became extinct on his death at the age of 40 at Friar's Hall. The book '' Genealogical Memoirs of the French Royal House'' was written by him. He died at Fryars Hall near

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on 15 February 1823 and is buried against the north wall of the north churchyard extension in St Cuthberts Churchyard in

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Family

On 17 September 1805, he married Anne Selby Cunninghame at Lainshaw. They had no issue.

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1782 births 1823 deaths Place of birth missing

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