Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt (18 January 1815 – 11 August 1844), was a

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peer and Conservative Party politician.

Background

Powerscourt was the son of

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, and Frances Theodosia, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden. Through the Wingfield line he was a descendant of the

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. After the death of his mother in 1820, his father remarried Theodosia Howard, who raised him until he succeeded to his father's title 1823.

Political career

Powerscourt succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1823. However, as this was an

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it did not entitle him to a seat in the

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. He was instead elected to the

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for

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in 1837, a seat he held until 1841.

Family

Lord Powerscourt married his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, in 1836. They had three sons. He died in August 1844, aged 29, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son Mervyn, a great-great-grandfather of

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. Lady Powerscourt married

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References

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