Solomon Augustus Richards (August 1828 - 13 January 1874) was

High Sheriff of Wexford The High Sheriff of Wexford was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Wexford, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Wexford County Sheriff ...

in 1854. He was a captain in the Wexford Militia. He was the eldest son and heir of the barrister John Goddard Richards and his first wife Anne Catherine Ward, and the grandson of the surgeon Solomon Richards and of the politician Hon. Robert Ward. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1846. He owned land on the

Roebuck Estate Roebuck (), also originally known as "Rabuck", is a townland and the name of a former estate in the baronies of Dublin and Rathdown in Ireland. The townland incorporates roughly all the land in the triangle between Clonskeagh, Dundrum and Mo ...

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and the Ardamine Estate in

County Wexford County Wexford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was ba ...

. He married his first cousin Sophia Mordaunt Ward, daughter of the Reverend Bernard John Ward (his mother's brother) and Isabella Phillips, who died on 11 August 1899 at age 70. They had three sons. They are both buried in the Ardamine graveyard.Solomon Augustus Richards.
North Wexford Historical Society. Retrieved 4 June 2018.

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