Richard Cavendish, 2nd Baron Waterpark FSA (13 July 1765 – 1 June 1830), was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...

politician and peer.

Early life

Waterpark was the son of

Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet Privy Council of Ireland, PC (29 September 1732 – 3 August 1804) was an Anglo-Irish politician noted for his extensive recording of parliamentary debates in the late 1760s and early 1770s. Early life Cavendish ...

and Sarah Cavendish, 1st Baroness Waterpark. Waterpark succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1804 and his mother's barony in 1807, at which point the two titles merged.

Career

He sat in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ...

as the Member of Parliament for Portarlington between 1790 and 1797. He was a fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

Personal life

On 6 August 1789, he was married to Juliana Cooper, the daughter of Thomas Cooper. Together they had nine children. He was succeeded by his eldest son,

Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish ( ; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable a ...

.Edmund Lodge, ''The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing'' (Saunders and Otley, 1833), 441.

References

1765 births 1830 deaths Barons in the Peerage of Ireland

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18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1790–1797 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Portarlington {{Ireland-baron-stub