Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet (7 September 1634 – 17 March 1685)^[1] was an Irish politician and baronet.

Born at Tallaght, County Dublin, he was the oldest son of William Bulkeley, Archdeacon of Dublin, a son of Lancelot Bulkeley, Archbishop of Dublin, and his first wife Elizabeth Mainwaring, daughter of Henry Mainwaring, Archdeacon of Ossory.^[2] Bulkeley was High Sheriff of Wicklow in 1660 and sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Baltinglass between 1665 and 1666.^[2] On 9 December 1672, he was created a baronet, of Old Bawn, in the County of Dublin, and of Dunlaven, in the County of Wicklow.^[3]

In 1659, he married as his first wife Catherine Bysse, daughter of John Bysse, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his wife Margaret Edgeworth, and had her two sons.^[3] She died in 1664,^[4] and on 8 February 1684, Bulkeley married secondly Dorothy Whitfield, daughter of Henry Whitfield MP and his wife Hester Temple, at the Church of St Nicholas Without, Dublin.^[2] He died only a year later, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Richard.^[1] His widow two years after his death remarried his third wife William Worth, Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland); she died in 1705.^[5] Rather strangely by modern standards, Worth after Dorothy's death remarried her stepson's widow, Lucy Downing, who was a daughter of the eminent politician and financier Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Howard.^[5] His estates eventually passed to his granddaughter Hester, who married James Worth Tynte, the youngest son of Dorothy's second husband William Worth by a previous marriage.

References

1. "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
2. "ThePeerage - Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Bt". Retrieved 3 June 2009.
3. Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 601.
4. Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. V. Dublin: James Moore. pp. 22–23.
5. Ball, F. Elrington (1926). The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. p. 359. ISBN 9781584774280.

Baronetage of Ireland
New creation	Baronet (of Old Bawn and Dunlaven) 1672 – 1685	Succeeded by Richard Bulkeley