Richard Godolphin Long (2 October 1761 – 1 July 1835)[1] was an English banker and Tory politician.
Baptised at West Lavington, Wiltshire a month after his birth, he was the son of Richard Long (died 1787)[2] and his wife Meliora, descendant of Sir John Lambe.
[4] In 1799, he purchased Steeple Ashton Manor House and farm,[5] which remained in the family until 1967, and commissioned architect Jeffry Wyattville to build Rood Ashton House nearby in 1808.
Long entered the House of Commons in 1806, sitting for Wiltshire until 1818.
[7] After a lingering illness Long died aged 73, at Rood Ashton House, six weeks after his wife, and was interred in the family's crypt at St Mary's Church, Steeple Ashton.