Richard Griffith (politician)
Richard Griffith, MP was the only son of Richard Griffith of Maiden Hall, County Kilkenny,, and his wife and cousin, the novelist Elizabeth Griffith.
Griffith served as the Member of Parliament for Askeaton in the Irish House of Commons between 1783 and 1790.
He was twice wed; first, to Charity Yorke Bramston, daughter of John Bramston of Oundle, with whom he had Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet; she died in June 1789.
On February 24, 1793, he married Mary, daughter of Walter Hussey Burgh and Anne de Burgh, with whom he had Arthur Hill Griffith, an attorney.
Arthur Hill Griffith fathered numerous children with his second wife, Hannah Rose Cottingham. In 1871, the family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, from County Westmeath, Ireland, including:
