Sir Richard St George, 1st Baronet (died 1789) was an

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politician. He was the son of George St George of Wooodsgift,

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and Elizabeth Bligh, daughter of

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, MP and Privy Councillor, of Rathmore,

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, and sister of

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. His grandfather Henry St George had been granted the Wooodsgift estate in 1666. St George sat in the

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as the

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for Athlone between 1763 and his death in 1789.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006). (Retrieved 21 April 2020). On 12 March 1766 he was created a

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, of Athlone in the

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. He married Sarah Persse, daughter of Robert Persse of Roxborough House,

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, (ancestor of

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) and Elizabeth Parsons, and had three sons. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, also called

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{{DEFAULTSORT:St George, Richard, 1st Baronet Year of birth unknown 1789 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies