From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt

British peer and Conservative Party politician

Summary

British peer and Conservative Party politician

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	The Right Honourable
name	Viscount Powerscourt
image	Print (BM 1907,1018.74).jpg
birth_name	Richard Wingfield
birth_date	18 January 1815
death_date	11 August 1844
spouse	Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte
issue	3 children, including Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt
noble family	Wingfield family
father	Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt
mother	Lady Frances Theodosia Jocelyn
occupation	Peer, Politician
predecessor	Richard Wingfield
successor	Mervyn Wingfield
other_titles	Baron Wingfield (UK)

Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt (18 January 1815 – 11 August 1844), was a British peer and Conservative Party politician.

Background

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. 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.

Political career

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. He was president of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland from 1843 to 1844.

Family

Lord Powerscourt married his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, in 1836. They had three sons. He died in August 1844, aged 29, 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.

References

[http://thepeerage.com/p3375.htm#i33750 thepeerage.com]
Beaumont, Daniel. (2009). "Wingfield, Theodosia".
{{usurped
https://www.riai.ie/the-riai/past-presidents
[http://thepeerage.com/p3375.htm#i33750 thepeerage.com]
{{usurped
[http://thepeerage.com/p3375.htm#i33750 thepeerage.com]

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

stratford-family 1815-births 1844-deaths viscounts-in-the-peerage-of-ireland conservative-party-(uk)-mps-for-english-constituencies uk-mps-1837–1841 uk-mps-who-inherited-peerages politics-of-bath,-somerset wingfield-family

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report