Richard Malone, 1st Baron Sunderlin (c.1738 – 14 April 1816) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
[1] Sunderlin was the eldest son and heir of Edmond Malone, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), and Catherine Collier, a cousin of the Earl of Catherlough.
[1] His uncle was the barrister and politician, Anthony Malone, from whom Sunderlin inherited extensive estates in the counties of Westmeath, Roscommon, Longford, Cavan, and Dublin.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, from where he graduated in 1755, before studying for an MA at Christ Church, Oxford, which he achieved in 1759.
There followed a protracted dispute over the Malone inheritance, which was blamed on his Uncle Anthony, who though a very eminent lawyer, failed to make sufficiently clear in his will what should happen in such a contingency.