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Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam

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22: 148: 42: 232: 174:(c. 22 August 1745 - 1816), eldest son and heir, who inherited the Decker mansion and art collection at Richmond and died unmarried and without legitimate issue; by his will, he founded the 374: 364: 321: 304: 171: 88: 359: 21: 112: 279: 369: 354: 349: 190: 184: 160: 128: 92: 116: 163:, a wealthy merchant of Dutch origin, by his wife Henrietta Watkins, at Sir Matthew's house in St James's Square. 120: 104: 60: 167:
thought the marriage notable enough to mention in his correspondence. By Catherine he had issue including:
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A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire
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The Register of Marriages in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster. 1723-1754
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in 1728. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1743 and took his seat in the
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On 3 May 1744, he married Catherine Decker, eldest daughter and co-heiress of
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Lord FitzWilliam died on 25 May 1776 at Mount Merrion and was buried at
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Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam, wearing the Star of the
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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann
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William Fitzwilliam, (c. 18 September 1749 Richmond - pre-1816)
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Hon. Catherine FitzWilliam, (c.30 Oct 1753 Richmond - )
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Henrietta FitzWilliam, (c. 16 October 1746 Richmond - )
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Order of the Bath
William Hoare
Fitzwilliam Museum

KB
PC
FRS
Mount Merrion
Dublin
Anglo-Irish
Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam
Sir John Shelley, 3rd Baronet
Vice-Admiral of Leinster
Irish House of Lords
Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath
Fellow of the Royal Society
Irish Privy Council
Richmond Green
Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet
Mount Merrion
Dublin

William Hoare
Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet
Horace Walpole
Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam
Fitzwilliam Museum
John FitzWilliam, 8th Viscount Fitzwilliam
Thomas FitzWilliam, 9th Viscount Fitzwilliam

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