Richard Coote (abt. 1643 - 1700)

Ancestors

Husband of Penelope (Hill) Coote — married Jul 1666 in Ireland

Descendants

Biography

Richard Coote was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Birth

Colonel Hon. Richard Coote was born in February 1643. He was the son of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath and Jane (Hannay) Reading.

Career

30 Jul 1660, appointed, jointly with his step-brother, Charles, for life, Collector and Register-General for all taxes, rents, and arrears cessed in Thomand and Connaught. In 1673 he was granted under the Acts of Settlement, 23,000 acres in Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Kerry and Roscommon, under the Acts of Settlement. His estate was sequestered under the Act of Attainder in 1689.

He held the office of Commissioner of Appeals in 1675. He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of County Kilkenny in 1675. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for County Kilkenny between October 1692 and 5 September 1693. He lived at Tullaghmain, County Kilkenny, Ireland.^[1]

Marriage

Richard married Penelope Hill, daughter of Rt. Hon. Arthur Hill, of Hillsborough, County Down, and had by her a son, Charles Coote, baptized 1671, died young, and four daughters, of whom Rose, was the first wife of Charles, Viscount Blesington; and Jane, first married to Sir Eilliam Evans of Kilcreene near Klikenny.^[2][3]

Death

He died in 1700.

Sources

1. ↑ http://thepeerage.com/p14746.htm#i147460
2. ↑ Rev. A. “Historical and Genealogical Records of the Coote Family”, Lausanne: Bridel, 1900, page 30
3. ↑ Added by Des Lynch on 15 October 2019

• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/mountrath1660.htm
• "Genealogical Memoirs of the members of parliament for the county and city of Kilkenny from the earliest on record to the present time; and for the boroughs of Callan, Thomastown, Inistioge, Gowran, St. Canice or Irishtown, and Knocktopher, from their enfranchisement to the Union", by George Dames Burtchaell, Dublin : Sealy & Co., 1888