Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe

Richard Edgcumbe
Born23 April 1680
Died22 November 1758 (aged 78)
OccupationPolitician
Title1st Baron Edgecumbe
SpouseMatilda Furnese
Children3
Parent(s)Sir Richard Edgcumbe
Lady Anne Montagu

Arms of Edgcumbe: Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent
Mount Edgcumbe House, Devon, 1869

Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, PC (23 April 1680 – 22 November 1758) of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 until 1742 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Edgcumbe. He is memorialised by Edgecombe County, North Carolina.[1]

  1. ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 114.