Riggs Falkiner

Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Baronet (c. 1712 – 24 April 1797)[1] was an Irish baronet and politician.

He was the oldest son of Caleb Falkiner and his wife Ruth Riggs, daughter of Edward Riggs,[2] and cousin of Daniel Falkiner.[3] He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1768 to 1776 and subsequently for Castlemartyr to 1783.[1] On 24 August 1778, he was created a baronet, of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork.[4]

On 5 January 1737, Falkiner married firstly Mary Barker.[2] She died in 1762, and Falkiner married secondly Anne Maturin, daughter of Reverend Gabriel James Maturin, in October 1764.[2] He had four daughters and three sons by his first wife.[2] Falkiner died in 1797 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Samuel.[5] His daughter Elizabeth married Attiwell Wood, a prominent local barrister who, no doubt through a family arrangement, represented the same two constituencies as his father-in-law between 1769 and 1783. His youngest daughter, Sarah Anne, in 1784 married William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, but died in 1788.

References

  1. 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 16 April 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "ThePeerage - Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Bt". Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  3. ↑ Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke, ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 191.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 11889. p. 1. 4 July 1778. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  5. ↑ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 456.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Henry Sheares
Matthew Parker		 Member of Parliament for Clonakilty
1768–1776
With: Richard Longfield		 Succeeded by
Thomas Adderley
Attiwell Wood
Preceded by
John Bennett
Attiwell Wood		 Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr
1776–1783
With: James Lysaght		 Succeeded by
John Bennett
Broderick Chinnery
Baronetage of Ireland
New creation Baronet
(of Anne Mount)
1778–1797 		Succeeded by
Samuel Falkiner
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