Richard Du Cane (13 October 1681 – 3 October 1744) was a British businessman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.
Du Cane was the son of Peter Du Cane, the elder and his wife Jane Booth, daughter of Richard Booth, a London merchant.
By his marriage, he acquired a substantial property near Colchester.
[2] Du Cane was a prominent businessman in the City of London, and served as a director of the Bank of England between 1710 and 1730.
In 1716, he voted for the septennial bill and for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts.