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. "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 16 April 2008.
2. "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.