About Riggs Falkiner
Lived 1725 – 1797 (aged 71–72). Riggs Falkiner was a politician.
Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Baronet (c. 1712 – 24 April 1797) and on his mother's side of the writer Anna, Lady Miller, née Riggs. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1768 to 1776 and subsequently for Castlemartyr to 1783. On 24 August 1778, he was created a baronet, of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork.
On 5 January 1737, Falkiner married firstly Mary Barker. She died in 1762, and Falkiner married secondly Anne Maturin, daughter of Reverend Gabriel James Maturin, in October 1764. 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 young in 1788, leaving two daughters.
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Irish politician
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Riggs Falkiner was born in 1725.
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Riggs Falkiner died in 1797.
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Riggs Falkiner was a politician.
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