Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Baronet (c. 1712 – 24 April 1797) was an

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baronet and politician. He was the oldest son of Caleb Falkiner, a merchant of

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, and his wife Ruth Riggs, daughter of Edward Riggs of Riggsdale. He was a cousin of the politician

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, and on his mother's side of the writer

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, née Riggs. He sat in the

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for

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from 1768 to 1776 and subsequently for

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to 1783. On 24 August 1778, he was created a baronet, of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork. On 5 January 1737, Falkiner married firstly Mary Barker. She died in 1762, and Falkiner married secondly Anne Maturin, daughter of Reverend Gabriel James Maturin, in October 1764. He had four daughters and three sons by his first wife, and one daughter Sarah Anne by his second wife. Falkiner died in 1797 and was succeeded in the

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by his only surviving son Samuel. His daughter Elizabeth married

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, a prominent local

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who, no doubt through a family arrangement, represented the same two constituencies as his father-in-law between 1769 and 1783. His youngest daughter, Sarah Anne, in 1784 married

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, but died young in 1788, leaving two daughters.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Falkiner, Sir Riggs, 1st Baronet 1720s births 1797 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland

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