Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (24 December 1730 – 8 August 1788) was an

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politician and peer.

Biography

Powerscourt was a younger son of

Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, PC ({{circa1550 – 9 September 1634){{sfn, Dunlop, Barry, 2004 was an English-born army officer and military administrator during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.{{sfn, Dunlop, Barry, 2004 He is ...

and Dorothy Beresford Rowley. He was educated at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

and was admitted to the

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in 1746. He served in the

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as the Member of Parliament for

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from 1761 to 1764. That year he succeeded his brother,

Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt (23 October 1729 – 6 May 1764), styled The Honourable Edward Wingfield between 1744 and 1751, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Biography Wingfield was the son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Visco ...

, in his titles and assumed his seat in the

Irish House of Lords The Irish House of Lords was the upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from medieval times until the end of 1800. It was also the final court of appeal of the Kingdom of Ireland. It was modelled on the House of Lords of Englan ...

.William Courthope (Ed.)
''Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland''
(J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838), p.629-30 (Retrieved 5 October 2016). He lived in Powerscourt House, Dublin. He married Lady Amelia Stratford, daughter of

John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough (1697/169829 May 1777) was an Irish peer and politician and member of the Noble House of Stratford. Background John was born either on 10 August 1697,Stratford, Gerald "A History of the Stratford Family" ...

and Martha O'Neale, on 7 September 1760. Powerscourt was succeeded by his eldest son,

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Powerscourt, Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount 1730 births 1788 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1761–1768 Members of the Irish House of Lords Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Members of the Middle Temple Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wicklow constituencies