Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (third creation)

Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt PC (I) (19 August 1697 – 21 October 1751) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Powerscourt was the son of Edward Wingfield, MP for County Sligo, and his wife, Eleanor Gore, a daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet.

[1] He was a descendant of the uncle of Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt.

[2] He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Boyle between 1727 and 1743.

On 4 February 1743 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in County Wicklow, and Baron Wingfield, of Wingfield in County Wexford, and he assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.

Portrait of his eldest son, Edward , by a member of the circle of Francis Cotes