Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet FRS (17 August 1660 – 7 April 1710)[1] 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 Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer and his wife Margaret Edgeworth.[2] Bulkeley was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating from both with a Bachelor of Arts in 1680.[3] In the following year, he became a Fellow of Trinity College[4] and received a Master of Arts in 1682.[5] Bulkeley was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.[6] In the same year he succeeded his father as baronet; however he was attainted by the Irish Parliament after the Glorious Revolution of 1689.[5] Three years later Bulkeley entered the Irish House of Commons for Fethard (County Wexford), representing the constituency until his death in 1710.[1]
On 16 February 1685, he married Lucy Downing, daughter of the eminent statesman and financier Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet at Westminster Abbey.[2] Their only son died as an infant.[3] Bulkeley died in 1710 and was buried at Ewell.[6] With his death the baronetcy became extinct.[7] His widow remarried, as his fourth wife, William Worth, Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), whose third wife had been Richard's stepmother, Dorothy Whitfield. Lucy survived her first husband by less than 2 years.[8] Sir Richard's estates passed to his niece Hester, who married Lucy's stepson James Worth Tynte.
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- ^ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926 Vol. 1 p.359
- 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