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Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt

1729 – 1764

Irish Viscount

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Lived 1729 – 1764 (aged 34). Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt was a politician.

Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt (23 October 1729 – 6 May 1764), styled The Honourable Edward Wingfield between 1744 and 1751, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.

Biography Wingfield was the son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt and Dorothy Beresford Rowley, daughter of Hercules Rowley, of Summerhill, County Meath. he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1751. This was an Irish peerage and gave him a seat in the Irish House of Lords. However, he was still able to stand for election for the British House of Commons, and in 1756 he was successfully returned for Stockbridge, a seat he held until 1761.

Lord Powerscourt died unmarried in May 1764, aged 34, and was succeeded in the title by his younger brother, Richard.

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St John's College
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Member of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain

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Irish Viscount (1729-1764)

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Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt was born on 23 October 1729.

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Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt died on 6 May 1764.

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Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt

· Wikidata: Q5345951

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