Nationality Irish Name Richard Mounteney | Profession Barrister, Judge | |
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Alma mater King's College, Cambridge Died 1768, Belturbet, Republic of Ireland | ||
Richard Mounteney (or Mountney) (1707–1768) was an Irish judge and classical scholar.
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Life
The son of Richard Mounteney, an officer in the customs house, by Maria, daughter of John Carey, he was born at Putney, Surrey, in 1707, and educated at Eton School. He was elected in 1725 to King's College, Cambridge, was noted as a good classical scholar, and became a Fellow. He graduated B.A. in 1729, and M.A. in 1735. Among his close friends at university were Sneyd Davies and Sir Edward Walpole.
Mounteney was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, and by the influence of his patron Sir Robert Walpole, he was appointed in 1737 one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). He was one of the judges who presided at the trial between James Annesley and Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey, in 1743.
Mounteney died on 3 March 1768 at Belturbet, County Cavan, while on circuit.
Works
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Family
Mounteney's first wife Margaret was buried at Donnybrook, Dublin, on 8 April 1756. His second marriage was with Manoah, Dowager-countess, the widow of Thomas Montgomery, 5th Earl of Mount Alexander, daughter of Daniel de la Cherois, of Lisburn; it was announced in Sleator's Public Gazetteer on 6 October 1759.