The Golding family were notable for producing three judges of the same Court in two generations.
[1] He was born in County Meath, son of Edward Golding (died after 1504), Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and collector of revenues for the port of Drogheda.
[2] Richard's cousin Walter Golding of Portmarnock (died 1547) was also Baron of Exchequer, and acted as legal adviser to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane.
[3] Richard entered Lincoln's Inn in 1505[4] and acted as Master of the Revels there in 1509.
[3] He married a daughter of Sir William Darcy of Platten and Margaret St Lawrence, daughter of Nicholas St Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth; they seem to have had no children.