Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet (7 September 1634 – 17 March 1685) was an Irish politician and baronet. Born at

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, he was the oldest son of William Bulkeley,

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, a son of

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, and his first wife Elizabeth Mainwaring, daughter of Henry Mainwaring, Archdeacon of

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. Bulkeley was

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in 1660 and sat in the

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as MP for

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between 1665 and 1666. On 9 December 1672, he was created a baronet, of

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, in the County of

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, and of Dunlaven, in the County of

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. In 1659, he married as his first wife Catherine Bysse, daughter of

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, and his wife Margaret Edgeworth, and had her two sons. She died in 1664, and on 8 February 1684, Bulkeley married secondly Dorothy Whitfield, daughter of Henry Whitfield MP and his wife Hester Temple, at the

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. He died only a year later, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son

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. His widow two years after his death remarried his third wife William Worth, Baron of the

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; she died in 1705. Rather strangely by modern standards, Worth after Dorothy's death remarried her stepson's widow, Lucy Downing, who was a daughter of the eminent politician and financier

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and his wife Frances Howard. His estates eventually passed to his granddaughter Hester, who married James Worth Tynte, the youngest son of Dorothy's second husband William Worth by a previous marriage.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bulkeley, Richard 1634 births 1685 deaths Politicians from County Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wicklow constituencies High sheriffs of Wicklow Irish MPs 1661–1666