Richard Cuney or Cuny (died bef. 24 October 1627) was a Welsh politician who sat in the

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from 1604 to 1611. He was the son of Walter Cuny of Lamphey, Pembrokeshire. As a soldier he was a captain of Foot in the Lisbon expedition of 1589, the Normandy campaign of 1591, in Guernsey in 1593 and in Ireland in 1595, 1597. He was a lieutenant colonel on the Cadiz expedition of 1596 and a full colonel and serjeant-major of the army in Ireland in 1598. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Pembroke. He was appointed

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for 1614–15.W R Williams ''The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales''
/ref> He married twice: firstly Anne, the daughter of Matthew Cradock of Stafford, with whom he had a daughter and secondly Jane, the daughter of Morgan Powell, merchant, of Greenhill, Pembrokeshire, with whom he had a son and 6 daughters. His son was captain Walter Cuney, a Parliamentary officer under Colonel

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in Pembrokeshire in 1643.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuney, Richard Year of birth missing 1627 deaths Place of birth missing Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales Welsh soldiers 16th-century Welsh military personnel 17th-century Welsh politicians English MPs 1604–1611 High sheriffs of Pembrokeshire English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) People of Elizabethan Ireland