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RICH, SIR ROBERT, BART., second son of Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Col. Edward Griffith, Private Secretary to Prince George of Denmark and Clerk, Board of Green Cloth; bapt. St. Anne, Soho 19 Dec 1717 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jul 1727; left 1735; Leyden Univ., adm. 21 Jul 1736; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 1 Feb 1737/8; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards 9 Jul 1739; Lieut. -Col., 4th Foot 24 Jun 1744; Col., 22 Aug 1749; Major-Gen., 17 Jan 1758; Lieut. -Gen., 10 Dec 1760; Governor of Londonderry and Colmore Fort 24 Apr 1756-74; served at battles of Falkirk and Culloden, where he was severely wounded; took part in defence of Minorca 1754-6; as an executor of his father’s will he became involved in a lengthy dispute with General Conway over financial responsibility for the accoutrements of the troopers in his father’s former regiment, and was dismissed from the Army and from his Governorship 3 Oct 1774; succ. father as 5th baronet 1 Feb 1768; m. 1st, 31 May 1752 Mary, dau. of Peter Ludlow, Ardsallagh, co. Meath, and sister of Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow (I) MP; m. 2nd, 21 Sep 1771 Elizabeth Williams, widow, dau. of Richard Bell, Brampton, Cumberland; d. 19 May 1785. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.