. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. nd congenial occupation in superintending a studof horses of which he was the proud owner. He was twice married,first to a daughter of the Right Hon. John Bysse, Chief Baron ofthe Exchequer, and secondly to a daughter of Mr. HenryWhitfield. On his death in 1685, he was succeeded at Old Bawnby his eldest son, who bore the same name. Sir Richard Bulkeleythe second, who was deformed, was a man of learniner, andgraduated both at Dublin, where he was elected a Fello
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. nd congenial occupation in superintending a studof horses of which he was the proud owner. He was twice married,first to a daughter of the Right Hon. John Bysse, Chief Baron ofthe Exchequer, and secondly to a daughter of Mr. HenryWhitfield. On his death in 1685, he was succeeded at Old Bawnby his eldest son, who bore the same name. Sir Richard Bulkeleythe second, who was deformed, was a man of learniner, andgraduated both at Dublin, where he was elected a Fellow of Trinity () Survey of Uiipcrcross and Newcastle; Lodges Peerage of Ireland,edited by Mervyn Archdali, vol. v., p. 21 ; Will of .Mice Bulkeley. OLD BAWN. 35 College, and at Oxford. lie became a Fellow of tlie Royal Society,and in its transactions there are papers by him on a self-propellingchariot wliicli he invented, on the Giants Causeway, and on ascheme for improving Ireland by the cultivation of his friends we find John Evelyn and the antiquai-y,Humphrey Wanloy, who was secretary to the Society for Promoting. Chimneypiece in Old Bawn. Frmii 11 pholixjniph in tin: ColUclion <i/ Uoijnl Snckty of Antiquaries of Ireland. Christian Knowledge. Sir Richard was a man of deep religiousfeeling, and towards the close of his life was carried away by somereligious enthusiasts known as French prophets, who he believedwould cure him of his deformity. Although he represented the D 2 36 PARISH OF TALLAGHT, borough of Fethard in the Irish Parliament, he resided principallyin England, where he had a handsome seat near Epsom. He to a daughter of Sir George Downing, but at his death,which occurred in 1710, left no children, and the baronetcy becameextinct (i). At that time Old Bawn was occupied by that much-marriedjudge, the Hon. William Worth, already mentioned in. connectionwith Rathfarnham, who married as his third wife the widow ofthe first Sir Richard Bulkel
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