Solomon Augustus Richards (August 1828 - 13 January 1874) was

High Sheriff of Wexford The High Sheriff of Wexford was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Wexford, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Wexford County Sherif ...

in 1854. He was a captain in the Wexford Militia. He was the eldest son and heir of the barrister

John Goddard Richards John Goddard Richards (born 1794, died 1846) was an Irish barrister, justice of the peace, and High Sheriff of Wexford for 1824. He was the eldest son and heir of the leading surgeon Solomon Richards and his wife Elizabeth Groome, daughter o ...

and his first wife Anne Catherine Ward, and the grandson of the surgeon Solomon Richards and of the politician Hon. Robert Ward. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1846. He owned land on the

Roebuck Estate Roebuck, also originally known as "Rabuck", is a townland and the name of a former estate in the baronys of Dublin, Uppercross, and Rathdown in Ireland. The townland incorporates roughly all the land in the triangle between Clonskeagh, Dund ...

County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Dublin.svg , map_alt = map showing County Dublin as a small area of darker green on the east coast within the lighter green background of ...

and the

Ardamine Estate The Ardamine Estate was a country estate and house near Gorey, in County Wexford, Ireland. The house was destroyed in an IRA attack on 9 July 1921 and not rebuilt.County Wexford. He married his first cousin Sophia Mordaunt Ward, daughter of the Reverend Bernard John Ward (his mother's brother) and Isabella Phillips, who died on 11 August 1899 at age 70. They had three sons. They are both buried in the Ardamine graveyard.Solomon Augustus Richards.
North Wexford Historical Society. Retrieved 4 June 2018.

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