Career
He was M.P for Knaresborough in 1837 and for Richmond between 1846 & 1861 when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds to make room for Sir Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne. He was Lord of the Treasury July 1846 to March 1852. Educated at Sandhurst and Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor in 1825).
Foreign some time he was a groom in waiting to her Majesty Queen Victoria.
He was the son of Admiral Sir Thomas Rich 5th Baronet of Sonning (1733-1803). He was created a baronet in 1863.
His remains were interred in the Rich family vault at Sonning Church, Berkshire on the 10th of November 1869.