Robert Ridgeway, 4th Earl of Londonderry (died 7 March 1714) was an

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peer.

Early life

Londonderry was the son of Weston Ridgeway, 3rd Earl of Londonderry and Frances Temple. His father was the grandson of the former Cicely MacWilliam and

Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Earl of Londonderry Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Earl of Londonderry (1550 – 1631) was an English administrator active in Ireland, in particular in the Ulster Plantation. Origins He was born in about 1550 either at Torwood House in his father's manor of Tor Mohun, Devo ...

. His maternal grandparents were

Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet (15 October 1592 – 12 September 1653) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War. Family Temple was the son of Sir Thomas Tem ...

, MP for

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, and the former Christiana Leveson.George Edward Cokayne, editor, ''The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes'' (no date (c. 1900); reprint,

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, 1983), volume II, page 415.

Career

Upon the death of his father in 1672, he became the 4th

Earl of Londonderry Earl of Londonderry is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1622 in favour of Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Earl of Londonderry, Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Baron Ridgeway, who served as Treasurer of I ...

(also "Lord Baron of Gallen Ridgeway").

Personal life

In 1686, Lord Londonderry married Lucy Jopson, a daughter of Sir William Jopson, 2nd Baronet and Lucy Tindall. Together, they were the parents of: * Lady Lucy Ridgeway (d. 1732), who married Arthur Chichester, 4th Earl of Donegall, son of Maj.-Gen.

Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall Major-General Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall (1666 – 10 April 1706), was an English Army officer and peer. Early life He was the eldest son of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall, and Jane Itchingham (–1712). Among his siblin ...

and Lady Catherine Forbes (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Granard), in 1716.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1158. * Lady Frances Ridgeway (d. 1772), who married

Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt (5 July 1653 – 28 April 1726) was an English merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George from 1698 to 1709. Born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, he eventually went to the Indian ...

, MP for Wilton and son of

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, in 1717. After his death in 1729, she married Robert Graham Robert Graham, of

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, in 1732. Lord Londonderry of

Tor Mohun Tor Mohun (formerly Tor Brewer)Risdon, p.378 is a historic Manorialism, manor and parish on the south coast of Devon, England, now superseded by the Victorian sea-side resort of Torquay and known as Tormohun, an area within that town. In 1876 the ...

in Devon died on 7 March 1714. As he had no male issue, his titles became extinct. His daughter, Lady Frances, inherited the estate of Cudworth in Yorkshire and, in 1726, his son-in-law

was created

in the title's second creation.Romney R. Sedgwick, biography of ''PITT, Thomas (c.1688-1729), of Pall Mall, London'', published in

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: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 197

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Descendants

Through his daughter Lady Frances, he was posthumously a grandfather of Thomas Pitt, 2nd Earl of Londonderry, Ridgeway Pitt, 3rd Earl of Londonderry, and Lady Lucy Pitt (wife of Pierce Meyrick, the youngest son of Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, Anglesey).

References

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