Sir Richard Bligh St George, 2nd Baronet (1765 – 1851) was an

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politician. He was the eldest son of

Sir Richard St George, 1st Baronet Sir Richard St George, 1st Baronet (died 1789) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was the son of George St George of Wooodsgift, County Kilkenny and Elizabeth Bligh, daughter of Thomas Bligh, MP and Privy Councillor, of Rathmore, County Meath, a ...

and Sarah Persse, daughter of Robert Persse of Roxborough House,

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, and in 1789 he inherited his father's

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. Between 1789 and 1800 St George represented Athlone in the

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.E. M. Johnston-Liik
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(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006). (Retrieved 21 April 2020). He married firstly Harriet Kelly, daughter of Mr Justice Thomas Kelly of the

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and Frances Hickie. He married secondly Bridget Blakeney, daughter of Captain

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and Margaret Stafford. By two wives he had twelve children, including Theophilus, his eldest son and heir, and Grace, who married

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, briefly

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. He lived at Wooodsgift,

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, which had been granted to his great-grandfather in 1666.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:St George, Richard, 2nd Baronet 1765 births 1851 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies