Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet FRS (17 August 1660 – 7 April 1710) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the elder son of Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet and his first wife Catherine Bysse, daughter of John Bysse, sometime

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and his wife Margaret Edgeworth. Bulkeley was educated at

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and

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, graduating from both with a

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in 1680. In the following year, he became a Fellow of Trinity College and received a

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in 1682. Bulkeley was appointed a

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in 1685. In the same year he succeeded his father as baronet Bulkeley of

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, in the County of

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, and of Dunlaven, in the County of

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; however he was attainted by the Irish Parliament after the

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of 1689. Three years later Bulkeley entered the

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for Fethard (County Wexford), representing the constituency until his death in 1710. On 16 February 1685, he married Lucy Downing, daughter of the eminent statesman and financier

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. Their only son died an infant. Bulkeley died in 1710 and was buried at

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. With his death the baronetcy became extinct. Richards's widow remarried William Worth, of the

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. Lucy had been Worth's fourth wife, Worth's third wife had been Richard's stepmother, Dorothy Whitfield. Lucy died only two years after her first husband, Richard Bulkeley.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 Vol. 1 p.359 Sir Richard's estates passed to his niece Hester, who married Lucy's stepson James Worth Tynte.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bulkeley, Richard 1660 births 1710 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Irish MPs 1692–1693 Irish MPs 1695–1699 Irish MPs 1703–1713 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies