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Persoonlijke gegevens Richard EDGECOMBE 

• Hij is geboren op 23 april 1680 in Mount Edgcumbe, Edgcumbe, Cornwall.
• Titel: 1st Baron Edgecumbe
• Hij is overleden op 22 november 1758 in Cornwall, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Richard EDGECOMBE en Anne MONTAGU

Gezin van Richard EDGECOMBE

Hij is getrouwd met Matilda FURNESE.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Richard EDGECOMBE  1716-1761
2. Piers EDGECOMBE  1716-????
3. Henry EDGECOMBE  1718-????
4. George EDGECOMBE  1720-1795 

Notities over Richard EDGECOMBE

Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, PC (23 April 1680 - 22 November 1758) of Mount Edgcumbe was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1701 until 1742 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Edgcumbe.

Edgcumbe was the son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe and Lady Anne Montagu, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich. He was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1697.

In June 1701 Edgcumbe was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Cornwall at a by-election but never took his seat as Parliament had been prorogued. At the general election later that year he was returned unopposed as MP for St Germans. He was elected MP for Plympton Erle in 1702 and remained the MP there through successive general elections until 1734. In that year he was returned as MP for Plympton Erle and Lostwithiel and chose to sit for Lostwithiel. He was elected again for Plympton Erle at the 1741 general election until he was raised to the peerage in 1742.

On two occasions Edgcumbe served as a lord of the treasury; and from 1724 to 1742 he was Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, becoming Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in December 1742. Edgcumbe was a faithful follower of the Whig Sir Robert Walpole, in whose interests he managed the elections for the Cornish boroughs, and his elevation to the peerage was designed to prevent him from giving evidence about Walpole's expenditure of the secret service money.

Edgcumbe married Matilda Furnese, the daughter of Sir Henry Furnese of Waldershare in Kent who died in 1721. They had four children of whom the eldest son died young. Richard was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Richard (1716-1761) and after the latter's death, by his second surviving son George.

Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe is the namesake of Edgecombe County, North Carolina.

Notes
"Edgcumbe, Richard (EGCM697R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
"EDGCUMBE, Richard (1680-1758), of Mount Edgcumbe, Maker and Cothele, Cornw". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715).
"EDGCUMBE, Richard (1680-1758), of Mount Edgcumbe, nr. Plymouth, Devon". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754).
Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 114.

References
Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Edgecumbe" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Edgcumbe, Richard (1680-1758)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Edgcumbe, Richard, second earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764-1839)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edgcumbe,_1st_Baron_Edgcumbe

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