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About Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe
Major-General Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, was a British Army officer and 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.
Everything about Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, member of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 2nd Parliament of Great Britain
- Born
- April 23, 1680
- Died
- November 22, 1758