Richard Edgcumbe (1640–1688)

He was the eldest son of Piers Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe House and Cotehele, Calstock, Cornwall, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir John Glanville of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire.

[1] He had married Anne, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich and Jemima Crewe.

They also had a daughter Anne who married Henry Pyne, a wealthy landowner of an established County Cork family.

Her mother – the much loved "my lady" of Samuel Pepys – spent her last years at Mount Edgecumbe and is buried there.

In his Tangier Journal Pepys records a visit to Lady Edgcumbe on 22 August 1679: "She received me extremely kindly.