Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt
{{Short description|British peer and Conservative Party politician}}
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Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt (18 January 1815 – 11 August 1844), was a British peer and Conservative Party politician.
{{Infobox noble
| honorific_suffix =
| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable
| name = Viscount Powerscourt
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Richard Wingfield
| birth_date = 18 January 1815
| death_date = 11 August 1844
| death_place =
| 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)
}}
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.[http://thepeerage.com/p3375.htm#i33750 thepeerage.com] 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.{{Cite web|url=https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a9092|title=Wingfield, Theodosia|last=Beaumont|first=Daniel|date=2009|website=Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press|access-date=2020-03-31}}
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.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034522/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/bcommons1.htm leighrayment.com]}}
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.[http://thepeerage.com/p3375.htm#i33750 thepeerage.com] He died in August 1844, aged 29,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080608023724/http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersP3.htm leighrayment.com]}}. thepeerage.com mistakenly gives his death as 2 September 1884. 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.[http://thepeerage.com/p3375.htm#i33750 thepeerage.com]
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Category:Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies