John Goddard Richards (November 1793 – 13 April 1846) was an Irish

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, justice of the peace, and

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for 1824. He was the eldest son and heir of the leading surgeon Solomon Richards and his wife Elizabeth Groome, daughter of the Reverend Edward Groome. He owned land on the

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and the Ardamine Estate in

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. He married firstly Anne-Catherine Ward, daughter of the Hon. Robert Ward, fourth son of

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, and his second wife Louisa Jane Symes, by whom he had six children. He married secondly Mary Adams Rawson, daughter of the noted

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Sir

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(formerly Adams) and Jane Rawson of Belmont,

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, and sister of the senior Government official Sir Rawson William Rawson. After his death Mary remarried the English judge John Billingsley Parry.Lodge p.582 eldest son and heir was Solomon Augustus Richards. His daughter Emily Sophia Richards married the Reverend Philip Walter Doyne, vicar of Monart, County Wexford, and was the mother of the noted

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Robert Walter Doyne Robert Walter Doyne (1857–1916) was an Anglo-Irish ophthalmologist. He was born in Monart, County Wexford, Ireland, second son of the Reverend Philip Walter Doyne (died 1861), vicar of Monart, and Emily Sophia Richards, daughter of John Godd ...

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1793 births 1846 deaths 19th-century Irish landowners County Wexford High sheriffs of Wexford Irish barristers Irish justices of the peace {{Ireland-law-bio-stub