Sir Richard Meade, 3rd Baronet (1697 – 26 May 1744) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...

politician. Meade was the second eldest surviving son of

Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet (1642–1707) was an Irish barrister, judge and politician. He was the first of the Meade Baronets of Balintubber, and an ancestor of the Earl of Clanwilliam, Earls of Clanwilliam. He was unusual among the lawyers of hi ...

and Hon. Elizabeth Butler. He was a graduate of

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. He sat in the

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as the Member of Parliament for

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from 1725 until his death in 1744.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.107 (Retrieved 28 October 2022). In July 1711 he succeeded to his elder brother's

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. In 1736 Meade married Catherine Prittie, daughter of Henry Prittie and Elizabeth Harrison. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son John Meade, who was raised to the

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in 1766.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meade, Sir Richard, 3rd Baronet 1697 births 1744 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies