Richard Tylney, 1st Earl Tylney

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Richard Tylney, 1st Earl Tylney (5 February 1680-March 1750) was an English Member of Parliament and peer in the Peerage of Ireland.

He was born as Richard Child. On 20 January 1704 he succeeded his half-brother Josiah as 3rd baronet (of Wanstead), becoming Sir Richard Child. He entered Parliament as member for Maldon in 1705, and subsequently represented Essex from 1710 to 1722 and again from 1727-1734.

In 1703, he had married Dorothy Glynne, daughter of John Glynne and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Francis Tylney of Tylney Hall, Hampshire. On 24 April 1718, Sir Richard was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Newtown, in the County of Donegal, and Viscount Castlemaine, in the County of Kerry, and in 1731 he was created Earl Tylney, of Castlemaine in the County of Kerry, also in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1734, Earl Tylney assumed the surname Tylney by Act of Parliament.

His eldest son Richard Tylney, Viscount Castlemaine (d. 1734), predeceased him, without issue, and he was succeeded by his second son, John.

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• www.thepeerage.com
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Comyns William Fytche	Member of Parliament for Maldon with Thomas Richmond 1708–1710	Succeeded by John Comyns Thomas Richmond
Preceded by Thomas Middleton Sir Francis Masham	Member of Parliament for Essex with Thomas Middleton 1710-1713 Sir Charles Barrington 1713-1715 Thomas Middleton 1715 William Harvey 1715-1716 Robert Honywood 1716-1722 1710–1722	Succeeded by William Harvey Robert Honywood
Preceded by William Harvey Robert Honywood	Member of Parliament for Essex with Sir Robert Abdy 1727–1734	Succeeded by Thomas Bramston Sir Robert Abdy
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Josiah Child	Baronet (of Wanstead) 1704-1750	Succeeded by John Tylney
Peerage of Ireland
New creation	Viscount Castlemaine 1718–1750	Succeeded by John Tylney
New creation	Earl Tylney 1731–1750	Succeeded by John Tylney