Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet

Through his mother he was a first cousin of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

[4] Although he supported the Penal Laws (no Irish officeholder then could do otherwise), he was very tolerant in religious matters and had several Roman Catholic friends, including his predecessor as Solicitor-General, Sir Toby Butler.

[2] He had expressed his interest in being appointed to the English Bench, but met with no success in his efforts to achieve office in England.

Henry Corbin, the prominent Virginia politician, was a close relative, possibly an elder brother, of Mary's father.

[9] He married secondly in 1723 (though by his own account he was already "old and sick") Mary Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson, former Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and his wife Margaret Dixon, daughter of Sir Richard Dixon, of Calverstown, County Kildare, and had one further son, also named Richard, who was born only a few months before his father's death.

[9] Her father was one of her husband's oldest friends, and Levinge had pleaded strongly but without success for his reappointment to the Bench, to sit with him in the Common Pleas.

Mary married Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers, and had three daughters, including the noted religious leader Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.

Sir Richard divided his time between his ancestral home, Parwich Hall, which he bought from his childless elder brother, and his newly acquired property Knockdrin Castle, County Westmeath.