Riggs Falkiner
Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Baronet (c. 1712 – 24 April 1797)[1] was an Irish baronet and politician.
He was the oldest son of Caleb Falkiner and his wife Ruth Riggs, daughter of Edward Riggs,[2] and cousin of Daniel Falkiner.[3] He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1768 to 1776 and subsequently for Castlemartyr to 1783.[1] On 24 August 1778, he was created a baronet, of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork.[4]
On 5 January 1737, Falkiner married firstly Mary Barker.[2] She died in 1762, and Falkiner married secondly Anne Maturin, daughter of Reverend Gabriel James Maturin, in October 1764.[2] He had four daughters and three sons by his first wife.[2] Falkiner died in 1797 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Samuel.[5] His daughter Elizabeth married Attiwell Wood, a prominent local barrister who, no doubt through a family arrangement, represented the same two constituencies as his father-in-law between 1769 and 1783. His youngest daughter, Sarah Anne, in 1784 married William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, but died in 1788 without issue.
References
- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 16 April 2008.
- ^ a b c d "ThePeerage - Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Bt". Retrieved 16 April 2009.
- ^ 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. 191.
- ^ "No. 11889". The London Gazette. 4 July 1778. p. 1.
- ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 456.
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