6th Viscount Fitzwilliam
Richard Fitzwilliam, 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam
(see
here),
bapt 24th July 1711,
mar
Catherine Decker [dau of Sir Matthew Decker, Bart,
of
Richmond, Surrey],
lived in his father-in-law's grand house
in
Richmond Green, Richmond
(see
map,
there is a road today on the NE side of the green called "Fitzwilliam House"),
succ 1743,
as an absentee landlord,
started the development of Dublin's
ultra-fashionable Georgian SE side,
extending from the
Duke of Leinster's house
eastwards into the old Fitzwilliam lands around
Baggotrath,
first laid out
Merrion St 1758,
laid out
Merrion Square 1762,
in later years he decided to live at
Mount Merrion once more,
and made alterations there (think it was him who built the
main block),
the beauty of Mount Merrion
is praised in
Freeman's Journal,
1 Sept 1774,
p.14 d
and
p.15 a,
he died at Mount Merrion, 25th May 1776, age 64 yrs,
bur
Donnybrook chapel,
(todo) see
Exshaw's Magazine, 1776, p.384,
having had issue:
- Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam,
bapt 22nd Aug 1745.
- John Fitzwilliam, 8th Viscount Fitzwilliam, bapt 1752,
succ 1816,
died 1830, age 78 yrs.
- Thomas Fitzwilliam, 9th Viscount Fitzwilliam, bapt 3rd Sept 1755,
succ 1830,
died Jan 1833, age 77 yrs
[title became extinct].