Richard Griffith (politician)

Richard Griffith, MP (10 June 1752 – 30 June 1820) was the only son of Richard Griffith of Maiden Hall, County Kilkenny, (1714–1788), and his wife and cousin, the novelist Elizabeth Griffith.[1]

Biography

Griffith served as the Member of Parliament for Askeaton in the Irish House of Commons between 1783 and 1790.[2]

He was twice wed; first, to Charity Yorke Bramston, daughter of John Bramston of Oundle, with whom he had Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet;[3] she died in June 1789.

On 24 February 1793, he married Mary (died 10 September 1820), daughter of Walter Hussey Burgh, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and Anne de Burgh, with whom he had Arthur Hill Griffith (1810–1881), an attorney.

Arthur Hill Griffith fathered numerous children with his second wife, Hannah Rose Cottingham (1826–1921),[4] including:

  • Edward Arthur Griffith (1857–1949), mining attorney, whose descendants include the son of Lucy Griffith Paré and Canadian mining engineer Al Paré, Jules-Arthur Paré (1917–2013), who was Professor Emeritus of McGill University Faculty of Medicine, and their great-granddaughter, actress Jessica Paré.[5] (Al Paré's father, a physician, was one of three siblings who had each married a sibling of a prominent Canadian mining family, for whom Timmins, Ontario was named by Al Paré, in 1912, in honour of his uncle, Noah Timmins.[6][7])
  • Christopher Arthur Griffith (1858–1949), physician.[8]

In 1871, the family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, from County Westmeath, Ireland.

References
  1. Leslie, Sir Stephen Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 23, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen, Macmillan, Great Britain, 1890, page 238. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  2. E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.93 (Retrieved 4 March 2016).
  3. Paré, L.G.The Seeds: The Life Story of a Matriarch, by Lucy Griffith Paré (with Antoine Paré), Les Entreprises de Carpent Perdu Inc., Ste-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Québec, Canada, 1984, page 305.
  4. Leslie, Sir Stephen Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 23, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen, Macmillan, Great Britain, 1890, page 238. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  5. Généalogie du Québec Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française, "Généalogie Jessica Paré". Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  6. Barnes, Michael (1986). Fortunes in the Ground. Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press. p. 123. ISBN 091978352X.
  7. City of Timmins Archived 2017-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Timmins, Ontario Canada, "Founding Fathers". Retrieved January 29, 2018.
  8. Plarr, Victor "Griffith, Christopher Arthur (1858–1949)",Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
  9. Daw, E.D. "Griffith, Sturt de Burgh (1905–1979)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 1996. Accessed February 12, 2018.
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