Sir Richard St George (1657 – 28 September 1726) was an Irish landowner. He was the only surviving son of Sir George St George of Dunmore, and first cousin of

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.John Lodge and Mervyn Archdall, ''The Peerage of Ireland'', Dublin 1789, vol. III, p. 284 (online at google books) In June 1686 he married Anne, daughter of Colonel John Eyre of Eyre Court; they had no children and she died in November 1719. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for

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in September 1703, sitting until his death. In October 1711 he succeeded to his father's estates in

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and on 23 November 1715 he was appointed to the

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. He died without heirs in September 1726, and his four surviving sisters became co-heiresses to the Dunmore property. Eventually his niece Elizabeth became sole heiress; she was the wife of Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet and the estate thus passed to the family of the Gore baronets. He left a natural daughter Mary St George, who married James Mansergh in 1749, as his second wife. Their son Richard Mansergh St George (killed by

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in 1798) was the ancestor of the St Georges of

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. John Burke and

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, ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England'', London 1838, p. 461 (online at google books)

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