Richard Blayney, 4th Baron Blayney (died 1670) was an

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politician and official. Blayney was the third son of Henry Blayney, 2nd Baron Blayney and Jane Moore. In 1656, he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of County Monaghan by

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, and that year also took his seat in the

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as the Member of Parliament for Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan. On 9 February 1659, he was appointed Escheator of Ulster by

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. Following the

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, Blayney was elected as the representative for

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in the

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, serving between 1661 and 1666. In 1669, he inherited his elder brother's peerage as

Baron Blayney Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan, in the County of Monaghan, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1621 for the soldier Sir Edward Blayney. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron, who was killed at the Battle of Benburb ...

; he died the following year.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blayney, Richard, 4th Baron Year of birth unknown 1670 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Irish people Barons in the Peerage of Ireland English MPs 1656–1658 Irish MPs 1661–1666 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Monaghan constituencies