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Richard Blayney, 4th Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan

1625 – 1670

(died 1670)

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Lived 1625 – 1670 (aged 44–45). Richard Blayney, 4th Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan was a politician.

Richard Blayney, 4th Baron Blayney (died 1670) was an Anglo-Irish politician and official.

Blayney was the third son of Henry Blayney, 2nd Baron Blayney and Jane Moore. In 1656, he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of County Monaghan by Oliver Cromwell, and that year also took his seat in the Second Protectorate Parliament as the Member of Parliament for Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan. On 9 February 1659, he was appointed Escheator of Ulster by Richard Cromwell. Following the Stuart Restoration, Blayney was elected as the representative for County Monaghan in the Irish House of Commons, serving between 1661 and 1666. In 1669, he inherited his elder brother's peerage as Baron Blayney; he died the following year.

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1625
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Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland, High Sheriff of Cavan, Custos Rotulorum of County Monaghan, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament
Also known as
Richard Blayney, 4th Baron Blayney

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Richard Blayney, 4th Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan was born in 1625.

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Richard Blayney, 4th Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan died on 3 November 1670.

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Richard Blayney, 4th Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Richard Blayney, 4th Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan

· Wikidata: Q75420906

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