Sir Richard Meade, 3rd Baronet (1697 – 26 May 1744) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Meade was the second eldest surviving son of

Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet (1642–1707) was an Irish barrister, judge and politician. He was the first of the Meade Baronets of Balintubber, and an ancestor of the Earls of Clanwilliam. He was unusual among the lawyers of his time for his lack o ...

and Hon. Elizabeth Butler. He was a graduate of

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He sat in the

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as the

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for

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from 1725 until his death in 1744.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.107 (Retrieved 28 October 2022). In July 1711 he succeeded to his elder brother's

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. In 1736 Meade married Catherine Prittie, daughter of Henry Prittie and Elizabeth Harrison. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son John Meade, who was raised to the

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in 1766.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meade, Sir Richard, 3rd Baronet 1697 births 1744 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies