William Ruxton (1697 – 15 February 1751) was an Irish landowner and MP from

Ardee Ardee (; , ) is a town and townland in County Louth, Ireland. It is located at the intersection of the N2, N52, and N33 roads. The town shows evidence of development from the thirteenth century onward but as a result of the continued develo ...

County Louth County Louth ( ; ) is a coastal Counties of Ireland, county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. Louth is bordered by the counties of County Meath, Meath to the ...

. He sat in the

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as Member for

from 1748 to his death; the other representative of the borough was Robert Parkinson. In 1718 he had married Mary Gibbons of Mountainstown, co. Meath; their son John Ruxton was elected for Ardee in his father's place. Another son Charles Ruxton also later sat for the constituency and married Elizabeth Parkinson of the Red House, Ardee. William Ruxton's youngest daughter,

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, married Arthur Wolfe and was created Baroness Kilwarden in her own right on 30 September 1795.

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* * http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/ruxtons_of_ardee.html * 1697 births 1751 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Louth constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub