Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt
Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt (18 January 1815 – 11 August 1844), was a British peer and Conservative Party politician.
Background[edit]
Powerscourt was the son of Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt, and Frances Theodosia, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden. Through the Wingfield line he was a descendant of the Noble House of Stratford.[1] 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.[2]
Political career[edit]
Powerscourt succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1823. However, as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was instead elected to the House of Commons for Bath in 1837, a seat he held until 1841.[3]
Family[edit]
Lord Powerscourt married his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, in 1836. They had three sons.[4] He died in August 1844, aged 29,[5] and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son Mervyn, a great-great-grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York. Lady Powerscourt married Frederick Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, in 1846.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ thepeerage.com
- ^ Beaumont, Daniel (2009). "Wingfield, Theodosia". Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ leighrayment.com[usurped]
- ^ thepeerage.com
- ^ leighrayment.com[usurped]. thepeerage.com mistakenly gives his death as 2 September 1884.
- ^ thepeerage.com
