Education
Trinity Hall.
Trinity Hall.
He founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, with a bequest of his library and art collection on his death in 1816. He was also a significant developer of his time in Dublin, Ireland. Richard FitzWilliam was baptised on 22 August 1745.
He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, receiving an Master of Arts in 1764.
He succeeded to his father"s title in 1776. He developed part of southeast Dublin in the Georgian style.
This included:
An Acting to enclose the centre of Merrion Square in 1791;
The design of Fitzwilliam Square from 1789, laid out in 1792;
An Acting to enclose the centre of Fitzwilliam Square in 1813. Richard FitzWilliam mainly lived in Richmond near London, where his mother had inherited the estates of her father Sir Matthew Decker, but he made frequent visits to Mount Merrion House, south of Dublin.
Royal Society; 1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
18th Parliament of Great Britain]
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789 and elected the second Member of Parliament for Wilton in Wiltshire from 1790 to 1806 when it still had two representatives.