Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet

Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet FRS (17 August 1660 – 7 April 1710) Bulkeley was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating from both with a Bachelor of Arts in 1680. In the following year, he became a Fellow of Trinity College and received a Master of Arts in 1682. Bulkeley was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685. In the same year he succeeded his father as baronet Bulkeley of Old Bawn, in the County of Dublin, and of Dunlaven, in the County of Wicklow; however he was attainted by the Irish Parliament after the Glorious Revolution of 1689.

On 16 February 1685, he married Lucy Downing, daughter of the eminent statesman and financier Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet at Westminster Abbey. Richards's widow remarried William Worth, of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). Lucy had been Worth's fourth wife, Worth's third wife had been Richard's stepmother, Dorothy Whitfield. Lucy died only two years after her first husband, Richard Bulkeley. Sir Richard's estates passed to his niece Hester, who married Lucy's stepson James Worth Tynte.